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Ricky Tognazzi’s “Strangled Lives” is an unusually fine example of a taut thriller made all the more gripping by being firmly and credibly rooted in an insidious social phenomenon.

The phenomenon in this case is the loan-shark racket, providing the background here for an electric drama about a supreme manipulator who moves in on a family, playing their friend and benefactor with one hand while orchestrating their destruction with the other.

Superlative craftsmanship and potent performances should steer this major Italian production even further than Tognazzi’s widely traveled previous pic, “La Scorta.”

The idea for the intelligent screenplay by Tognazzi’s regular scripting team of Simona Izzo, Graziano Diana and Giuseppe Manfridi came from Italian judge Francesco Taurisano, whose experience in the magistracy also provided the basis for the Mafia drama of “La Scorta.” Usury is a multibillion-dollar busi