This crime drama follows an Italian police commissioner as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save her is Frank Salvatore, the old-school Mafia don accused of the crime. Caprile leans on a low-level thug for information and is led to Salvatore, who considers children to be off-limits as targets and hopes to restore his reputation
Acting
Henry Silva's granite-faced commissioner
Direction
Fago's lean, mean 90-minute sprint
Production
Gritty '70s Milan locations
Director
Giovanni Fago
Henry Silva
Commissioner Caprile
Rada Rassimov
Marta
Philippe Leroy
The Professor
Gabriele Ferzetti
Don Francesco Salvatore
Fausta Avelli
Luisa Bonsanti
Franco Diogene
Nino
Lia Tanzi
Marisa Callari
Calisto Calisti
Malacria
Pino Ferrara
Mercuri
Armando Brancia
Zevi
Paul Müller
Jimmy
Loris Bazzocchi
Locri
Luciano Bartoli
Rosolino Federici
Renato Pinciroli
Turiddu
Rosita Torosh
Signora Bonsanti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Henry Silva spoke no Italian and learned his lines phonetically, which somehow makes his dead-eyed intensity even more alien and perfect.
This is peak poliziotteschi—a uniquely Italian genre where moral ambiguity wasn't edgy, it was just Tuesday.
IT
