Year of the Gun

One of the more interesting films remembered for the wrong reasons is *Year of the Gun*, 1991 political thriller directed by John Frankenheimer. The plot is based on the eponymous semi-autobiographical novel by Michael Mewshaw, American journalist who used to live in Italy in 1970s, during historical period known as the “Years of Lead”. The protagonist, played by Andrew McCarthy, is David Raybourne, American freelan…