Shootout scene from 'The Don is Dead' (1973)

This clip from: 'The Don is Dead'.
A film that's much more like a lost episode of 'Police Squad' than it is 'The Godfather'.

Made in 1973, arguably at the very peak of mainstream cinema, this disorganised crime cheese-fest features a young and disturbingly handsome Robert Forster (Black Hole, Jackie Brown), as well as some enormous American cars, embarrassing faux-Italian accents, and lashings of boxes, dustbins and clichés!

In this clip, of particular note is the truck-driver assassin who takes a shotgun blast (apparently forceful enough to blow him backwards), gets up and then gets shot again, finally landing on his front like a sack of potatoes. Full marks awarded for style.

Al Lettieri's character (Vince) does a clumsy little tango through some boxes before using a fruit crate as a crunchy pillow.
Of equal curiousity is the tomato, clearly placed in shot by someone in the production team. In a movie with so little detail or attention to detail, they thought it was somehow important to have a (squashed) tomato on that box??