The Heroin Busters (1977)

Review: The Heroin Busters (1977)

Director: Enzo G. Castellari

Cast: Fabio Testi, David Hemmings, Sherry Buchanan, Wolfango Soldati, Joshua Sinclair,

Fabio Testi
Fabio Testi
David Hemmings
David Hemmings
Sherry Buchanan
Sherry Buchanan
Wolfango Soldati
Wolfango Soldati
Joshua Sinclair
Joshua Sinclair

Plot: Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton (David Hemmings), is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio (Fabio Testi), an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni (John Loffredo), however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.

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Miscellaneous May 2022 viewing

Miscellaneous May 2022 viewing

Bertrand Tavernier’s epic eight-part documentary Journeys Through French Cinema (2017) offers a personal and idiosyncratic history rooted in the filmmakers personal passions; Enzo G. Castellari’s The Big Racket (1976) and The Heroin […]

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