Umberto Lenzi directs Maurizio Merli, Arthur Kennedy, and Giampiero Albertini in this bitty Italian cop thriller where a detective becomes disillusioned with the lawless streets he must police.

AKA Rome: Armed To The Teeth. A Dirty Harry dubbed exploitation tribute medley where our world weary big cop can’t turn the keys in his car ignition without another crime happening right in front of him. This is sleazy and action packed, randomly plotted. Like The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, a side character, a hunchback sociopath always on the wrong side of the law, damn near becomes the protagonist. Throwaway machismo.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (1977)

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