Francesco Rosi followed his groundbreaking Salvatore Giuliano (1961) with Hands Over the City (1963). It's a more banal but no less disquieting portrait of corruption, focusing on urban decay and business-government collusion.Developer Edoardo Nottola (Rod Steiger) buys cheap land on the outskirts of Naples to build apartments. The project causes a tenement to collapse, killing several people. De Vita (Alberto Conocchia), a leftist politician, forces an investigation which reveals collusion between authorities and construction companies. Nottola runs for city commissioner, ignoring press attacks and criticism from ...