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Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.
Sal Borgese
- Salvatore
- (as Salvatore Borgese)
Joshua Sinclair
- Rudy 'The Marsiglian'
- (as Gianluigi Loffredo)
Anna Zinnemann
- Anna Rossetti
- (as Anna Bellini)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe character of the restaurateur's daughter is played by Stefania Castellari, the director's own daughter.
- GoofsLuigi loads a fresh clip into his MP-40 but does not chamber a round before he shoots himself.
- Alternate versionsThe film was rejected for a UK cinema certificate in 1977 by the BBFC. It was finally released on DVD in 2002 after 14 secs of cuts for 'violent rape focusing on forcible breast exposure and female nudity'.
- ConnectionsFeatured in First Action Hero (2006)
Featured review
A script doesn't necessarily have to be realistic to be good. In my opinion, all it needs its to make sense, to be credible within itself. This movie has it all and its very fast paced. It is a very good attempt to expand the perspective of the action movies back then, and I consider it, along with "Perros Callejeros 1 and 2" the best european action movies of the 70s, the background for much of the filmmaking that we see today as "new", and a great spectacle. The enchant of these movies is that, even though some special effects are not credible at all (some of the shot wounds don't bleed at all), those that do required cars to be burnt and some stunts to expose themselves are better than those the new computarized hollywood movies have.It doesnt make you feel like you are watching cartoons. I admit that the beauty of movies is fantasy. But when i compare this movie to any action movie from hollywood, I come to the conclusion that fantasy doesn't necessarily have to please anybodies wishes nor to be custom made for a certain public, but to show different prespectives than those that public has.
the only problem...Real hard to find
the only problem...Real hard to find
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- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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