Sergio Martino made more than 30 full theatrical cinema films and then later also worked in TV. He began as a director in 1970 and started well after a couple of documentaries and a spaghetti western. Arizona Colt, Hired Gun (1970) before the fantastic giallo, The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971) with the lovely Edwige Fenech, fortunately his wife's brother. The Case of the Scorpion's Tale (1971) without Fenech but then another couple of really good ones with All the Colours of the Dark and Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key both made in 1972 and of course both starring Fenech. Next comes a really nasty appalling sadistic film, Torso (1973) then Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973) a sex comedy starring, of course, Fenech but then comes The Violent Professionals starring Luc Merenda and Richard Conte. Martino has made various films and he here did one of the crime thrillers which are usually rather nasty and violent although this is surprisingly less terrible. It seems rather safe and the story rather obvious although others like the film and the one that is not nasty all the time they prefer. There are also those who like Luc Merenda and Richard Conte, less than the usual stars but I'm not an obvious fan.
