When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
Acting
Mario Adorf's sweaty, desperate everyman pimp
Direction
Di Leo's brutal efficiency in 96 tight minutes
Stunts
That junkyard finale is pure carnage poetry
Director
Fernando Di Leo
Mario Adorf
Luca Canali
Henry Silva
Dave Catania
Woody Strode
Frank Webster
Adolfo Celi
Don Vito Tressoldi
Luciana Paluzzi
Eva Lalli
Franco Fabrizi
Enrico Moroni
Femi Benussi
Nana
Gianni Macchia
Nicola
Peter Berling
Damiano
Francesca Romana Coluzzi
Trini
Cyril Cusack
Corso
Sylva Koscina
Lucia Canali
Jessica Dublin
Miss Kenneth
Omero Capanna
Tressoldi's Henchman at Carpentry
Giuseppe Castellano
Piero Panunzio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Poliziotteschi films exploded after real-life Italian police brutality and Red Brigade violence made crime feel urgently topical.
Henry Silva and Woody Strode were imported specifically to sell the film internationally; their minimal dialogue was partly due to neither speaking Italian.
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