The late Claudio Cassinelli in his best starring role stars as an irate hit-man out to get back at his ex-partners who stood him up in a recent back robbery. Elio Zamuto (kinda an Italian version of Ian McShane) stars as the police commissioner who seems to magically come up with solutions as to how to find where the bad guys are hiding and what to do. The always-welcome John Steiner drops by as a lowlife bankrobber who gets to kill a couple pigs before he dies horribly.
The ending of this crime flick is really grim, though it does feature a trenchcoat-clad Cassinelli gunning down a few cops with a submachinegun before hauling ass into the nearby woods. A lot of the locations seemed to be re-used from Sergio Martino's TORSO and a couple Fernando Di Leo crime flicks. Mario Caiano's a decent director, but he had a really loser crew on this picture... Gianfranco Plenizio's music is repetitive and horrible (not unlike his score in Django Strikes Again) and the sometimes hand-held camera-work looks like it was shot by one of the Blair Witch Project kids.
I don't believe this flick was ever released in an English version, though there may be one floating out there somewhere. Although it's not the best of Italy's many crime films (see some of Umberto Lenzi's), it definitely is worthy of some attention for Cassinelli's dynamite compelling performance as a sweaty, desperate fugitive out for revenge.
The ending of this crime flick is really grim, though it does feature a trenchcoat-clad Cassinelli gunning down a few cops with a submachinegun before hauling ass into the nearby woods. A lot of the locations seemed to be re-used from Sergio Martino's TORSO and a couple Fernando Di Leo crime flicks. Mario Caiano's a decent director, but he had a really loser crew on this picture... Gianfranco Plenizio's music is repetitive and horrible (not unlike his score in Django Strikes Again) and the sometimes hand-held camera-work looks like it was shot by one of the Blair Witch Project kids.
I don't believe this flick was ever released in an English version, though there may be one floating out there somewhere. Although it's not the best of Italy's many crime films (see some of Umberto Lenzi's), it definitely is worthy of some attention for Cassinelli's dynamite compelling performance as a sweaty, desperate fugitive out for revenge.