Syndicate Sadists
(1975)
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Syndicate Sadists
(1975)
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Rambo
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| Joseph Cotten | ... |
Paternò
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Maria Fiore | ... |
Maria Scalia
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Mario Piave | ... |
Pino Scalia
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Luciano Catenacci | ... |
Conti
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Guido Alberti | ... |
Owner of Billiard Salon
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Femi Benussi | ... |
Flora
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Silvano Tranquilli | ... |
Dr. Marco Marsili
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Shirley Corrigan | ... |
Conti's mistress
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Antonio Casale | ... |
Philip Duval
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Rosario Borelli | ... |
One of Paterno's men
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Luciano Pigozzi | ... |
One of Conti's men
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Mario Novelli | ... |
Franco
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Bruno Di Luia | ... |
One of Conti's men
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Giuseppe Castellano | ... |
One of Conti's men
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A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families. Written by frankfob2@yahoo.com
One of the myriad "poliziotteschi" to emerge from Italy during the 1970s, to which both director Lenzi and star Tomas Milian contributed a good deal; in fact, their previous collaboration ALMOST HUMAN (1974) is considered among the genre high-points. This, however, is fairly indistinguishable apart from the fact that the surname of Milian's character is Rambo!; it does include plenty of typical action, not to mention a funky score by Franco Micalizzi. Rambo is a reformed gangster who now supplies iconoclastic help to the Police; predictably, his best pal in the force (actually a special vigilante squad) ends up murdered before long which sets Rambo on exacting private revenge. This sees him coming face to face once again with his former boss, a now-blind Joseph Cotten (who, like Milian, followed a certain code of ethics in spite of the nature of the work involved) whose 'empire' is being unscrupulously run by the old man's son, Alfredo Lastretti. A smaller rival band of criminals among whose members is the ubiquitous Luciano Pigozzi also gets into our disheveled hero's hair by kidnapping an eminent citizen (Silvano Tranquilli)'s son. Incidentally, this incongruous sentimental emphasis on kids since Milian also dotes on his cop friend's idolizing offspring does the film the biggest harm; at the same time, while keeping an affectionate (but platonic) eye on the latter boy's mum, he is romantically involved with a prostitute (Femi Benussi) who, unsurprisingly, is eventually victimized by the baddies for it. Though consistently offering reasonable gratification of various sorts, most examples of the poliziottesco genre suffered from a shallowness that made them instantly forgettable and this one, alas, proved no exception despite the involvement of two of its major exponents.