Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)

Review: Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)

Director: Umberto Lenzi

Cast: Tomas Milian, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Claudio Cassinelli, Claudio Undari, Henry Silva,

Tomas Milian
Tomas Milian
Nicoletta Machiavelli
Nicoletta Machiavelli
Claudio Cassinelli
Claudio Cassinelli
Claudio Undari
Claudio Undari
Henry Silva
Henry Silva

Plot: Free Hand for a Tough Cop (Italian: Il trucido e lo sbirro, also known as Tough Cop) is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi aka "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's Brothers Till We Die (1978, a sort of sequel of this movie), in Destruction Force by Stelvio Massi (1977), in Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici by Bruno Corbucci (1980), in Francesco Massaro's Il lupo e l'agnello (1980).

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Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Winter viewing 3: Severin and Fractured Visions

Continuing my quick survey of genre movies I watched over the past couple of months, I move on to a number of Severin releases, which include a few transgressive titles from the ’80s, pulpy kitsch from the ’60s and a couple of […]

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