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Cast
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| Maurizio Merli | ... | Inspector Leonardo Tanzi | |
| Arthur Kennedy | ... | Chief of Police | |
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Giampiero Albertini | ... | Commissioner Francesco Caputo |
| Ivan Rassimov | ... | Tony Parenzo | |
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Biagio Pelligra | ... | Savelli |
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Aldo Barberito | ... | Detective Poliani |
| Stefano Patrizi | ... | Stefano | |
| Luciano Pigozzi | ... | Moretto's Henchman | |
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Luciano Catenacci | ... | Ferdinando Gerace |
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Carlo Alighiero | ... | Savelli's Lawyer |
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Carlo Gaddi | ... | Oronzo / Theodore |
| Claudio Nicastro | ... | Fence | |
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Valentino Macchi | ... | Franco |
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Alessandra Cardini | ... | Sandra Moretto (as Sandra Cardini) |
| Gabriella Lepori | ... | Marta Assante | |
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A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
Plot Keywords:
italy | ends with freeze frame | gunned down | bad guys win | hunchback |Taglines:
Inspector Tanzi makes Dirty Harry look like Mr. Clean! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
ItalyLanguage:
ItalianRelease Date:
July 1978 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Assault with a Deadly Weapon See more »Filming Locations:
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Stefano: No, it's your sister's.
Commissioner Leonardo Tanzi: [Beating him up] I'll make you forget women for the rest of your life, damn it! You fucking stupid son of a bitch! I'd like to see you do it again, you know!
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When Terry Levene distributed this film in the late 1970's, he replaced a few of the establishing shots with those of American locations. For an establishing shot of the Rome youth center where Tanzi meets Stefano, Levine used a shot of the Manhattan night club "Fascination". Strangely enough, in the later Lenzi film From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979) (which also starred Maurizio Merli as an Italian policeman), Merli drives by the club "Fascination" after he arrives in New York. See more »Quotes
Commissioner Leonardo Tanzi: [Holds up a football score card] Is it yours?Stefano: No, it's your sister's.
Commissioner Leonardo Tanzi: [Beating him up] I'll make you forget women for the rest of your life, damn it! You fucking stupid son of a bitch! I'd like to see you do it again, you know!
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Crazy Credits
The opening credits are played while the camera in first person view mode (From a criminal's POV) drives through Rome looking at banks and building societies and leaves the city through a long, dark tunnel as the credits end. See more »Alternate Versions
The American release by Aquarius Distribution entitled "Assault with a Deadly Weapon" is missing the first 10 minutes, the beginning credits, and the ending credits. The American version also has several of the scenes reshot so that the originally Italian words on buildings and on people's notes appear in English. Also, the beginning credits list a variety of made-up Americanized names and credit Terry Levene (the head of Aquarius Distribution) as the film's producer. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Recently I had the pleasure of watching both the Italian "Roma a Mano Armata" and the US cut "Assault with a Deadly Weapon." Lenzi's reputation as a filmmaker rests mainly on his Crime films from the mid-to-late '70s for good reason and this is an addictive and fast-paced brilliant piece of that work. Maurizio Merli is great as the quietly intense Leonardo Tanzi and deserves much more credit than the "Franco Nero wannabe" usually leveled at him. The US cut is missing the first 8 minutes of Merli's failed bust of an illegal gambling ring (at least that's what I gleaned from the lack of subtitles) and sets up his frustration of being under the law himself while desperately trying to rid the world of those who break it. Even with a different credit sequence that oddly doesn't actually credit anyone but actor Arthur Kennedy (as the director!), the US cut (available on VHS in the '80s as part of Sybil Danning's Adventure Video series with a bizarre introduction by Ms. Danning herself) is still highly highly recommended. Hopefully this will be available on DVD for more people to discover these series of films, which can easily appeal to the same fans of Italian horror and Eurocult cinema.