≡ Category: Action, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action
Director: Giorgio Stegani
Year: 1974
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The leader of a Milanese gang, Paolo Mancuso (Antonio Sabato) is a total scumbag, even beyond what you would expect from a pimp and drug dealer. When the Calabrese mafia sends two prostitutes into his zone to turn tricks, he has one of them gang […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action
Director: Michele Massimo Tarantini
Year: 1979
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Poliziotti Violenti gives us something a little different from the Dirty Harry clones common in Poliziotteschi flicks.
Altieri (the great Henry Silva) is an army major who has just been promoted to keep him away from an investigation into some defective parachutes that caused the […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Not Worth Your Time, Poliziotteschi | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action/
Director: Stelvio Massi
Year: 1978
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
For the record, I find nothing wrong with ripping off the Dirty Harry template. You’ve got the righteous cop who uses excessive force to get results, the corrupt legal system, the peripheral adventures that have nothing to do with the main thread of the narrative, […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Stelvio Massi
Year: 1977
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
La Banda del Trucido aka Destruction Force starts out like a typical Italian Dirty Harry knockoff. In a pre-credit sequence, Commissario Ghini (Luc Merenda) deals with a trio of hostage takers in the typically hamfisted way we’re accustomed to while his boss does his […]
≡ Category: Action, Essential, Italy, Poliziotteschi | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action
Director: Mario Caiano
Year: 1977
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Weapons Of Death is outrageously entertaining from beginning to end. Just don’t expect anything like a serious movie. Every couple of minutes, there’s some gratuitous violence, stunt, or nudity. There’s nothing like a steady, logical buildup, leading to a denouement. Weapons Of Death is composed […]
≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Drama
Director: Damiano Damiani
Year: 1971
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In 1971, Dirty Harry came out. It justified vigilante justice by reasoning that vicious criminals give up their right to live after they have assaulted upstanding citizens, and that mealy mouthed liberal do gooders in the government coddle these criminals.
Writer/director Damiano Damiani has a slightly […]
≡ Category: Highly Recommended, Italy, Poliziotteschi | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1972
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Milano Calibro 9 blasts out of the gate with one of the strongest pre credit sequences in film history. It’s a perfect marriage of music (one of Luis Bacalov’s tastiest scores), editing, and muscular cinematography.
There is an elaborately choreographed exchange of money, but at […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/Drama/ Poliziotteschi
Director: Marino Girolami
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Three men in ski masks break into a house. They are very quick to assault a maid and an old lady, who are no threat at all, instead of simply tying them up. It’s almost comical. Then these clowns go about stuffing antique clocks and […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Poliziotteschi
Director: Romolo Guerrieri
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Young, Violent, Dangerous puts me in a bit of a quandary. It’s tightly and logically written by Fernando Di Leo, well acted, and professionally directed by Romolo Guerrieri. And yet, I have a hard time buying the central concept.
Lea (Eleonora Giorgi) shows up at […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The first thing you notice with Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man is that the leads, Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock, are impossibly beautiful men, like Greek gods. Not that they are effeminate in any way. Unlike American leading men, Porel and Lovelock […]
