A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
Acting
Tomas Milian's grotesque, giggling performance is genuinely hard to watch.
Score
Morricone's ironic lounge-jazz mocks every atrocity on screen.
Direction
Lenzi's nihilistic speed-run through human depravity.
Director
Umberto Lenzi
Tomas Milian
Giulio Sacchi
Henry Silva
Commissario Walter Grandi
Laura Belli
Marilù Porrino
Gino Santercole
Vittorio
Mario Piave
Grandi's Assistant
Luciano Catenacci
Ugo Majone
Pippo Starnazza
Papà
Lorenzo Piani
Gianni - Marilù's Boyfriend
Joris Muzio
Giulio's Lawyer
Rosita Torosh
Marta
Francesco D'Adda
Romano
Annie Carol Edel
Marta's friend
Giuseppe Castellano
Police Inspector with glasses
Tom Felleghy
Judge Rossi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lenzi called this his 'most violent film' and Milian allegedly hated playing Giulio so much he demanded the character die horribly.
The working title was 'The Kidnap of Mary Lou'—changed when distributors realized Milian's performance was the main attraction, not the crime plot.
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