Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1972
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Manhunt (or La Mala Ordina in the original Italian) is the 2nd part of writer/director Fernando Di Leo’s famed Milieu Trilogy.
Writer/director Di Leo wastes little time setting up the plot. Corso (Cyril Cusack), a mafia boss in NYC, hears that a Milanese pimp named Luca Canali […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1985
Rating:

NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
A couple of days ago, I wrote about The Boss, another infinitely better film from writer/director Fernando Di Leo. Both of these films are available as a package from Raro Video. If you really like Italian Poliziotteschi movies, the set is worth getting for The […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1973
Rating:

TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In most ways, The Boss AKA Il Boss is pretty delightful. The film is crammed full of flavorful performances, from the leads down to the tiniest character parts; the dialog is often laugh out loud funny; the way scenes are constructed is often cunning […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Andrea Bianchi
Year: 1974
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I saw Cry Of A Prostitute over 30 years ago in an outdoor movie theater in Ikaria, Greece, and it made quite an impression on me, mostly because of the gnarly imagery and lack of a conventional hero. I’ve been looking forward to watching it again […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Massimo Dallamano
Year: 1976

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WORTH A LOOK
It’s difficult to say exactly what I didn’t like about Colt 38 Special Squad. It’s competently directed and paced by Massimo Dallamano, it’s got a reasonably good score by Stelvio Cipriani, it’s got a moment or two of kinky carnage, which I always appreciate, lots of innocent […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Year: 1976
Rating:

TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Big Racket starts out well enough. Grooving to the strains of an Italian progressive rock soundtrack, a bunch of motorcycle thugs outfitted with umpire masks and the finest in 70s Eurotrash fashion go to town on a clothing boutique with baseball bats.
You see, The […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Year: 1973
Rating:

WORTH A LOOK
Gang War in Milan (Milano Rovente) is a mixed bag, no doubt about it.
The filmmaking, by director Umberto Lenzi, is just functional, with plenty of that trendy 70s zoom stinking up the screen. The music cues are laughable, and the sound editing is downright horrible. Worse still, […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Sergio Grieco
Year: 1977

Rating:

NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
One thing you can say for writer/director Sergio Grieco — he doesn’t stint on sleaze. In Beast With A Gun (AKA Mad Dog Killer), he pours on the sadism in a sequence in which crook Nanni Vitali (Helmut Berger) rapes a stool pigeon’s girlfriend in front […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Action
Director: Stelvio Massi
Year: 1974

Rating:

NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I really wanted to like Emergency Squad. It has a lot of virtues. The characters are either colorful or charming, the score is a bizarre kind of Italian 70s disco which is so wrong that it’s funny, the great Tomas Milian is amusing as always in […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Action/Crime Drama
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Year: 1975
Rating:

TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In Almost Human, small-time psychotic criminal Giulio (Tomas Milian) decides to move up to the big time by kidnapping a rich man’s daughter. He is pursued by  Walter Grandi (the great Henry Silva), the inspector in charge of the case.
One of the things that make […]