A Policewoman in New York (1981)

A Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman.

Director:

Michele Massimo Tarantini

Writers:

Luciano Martino (story), Francesco Milizia (story)

Stars:

Edwige Fenech, Alvaro Vitali, Giacomo Rizzo

Cast

Cast overview:
Edwige Fenech	...	Gianna Amicucci / Pupa
Alvaro Vitali	...	Alvaro Tarallo / Joe Dodiciomicidi
Giacomo Rizzo	...	Il Turco
Edith Peters	...	La cameriera
Enzo Andronico	...	Insegnante di dialetto palermitano (as Vincenzo Andronico)
Galliano Sbarra	...	Padre di Gianna
Fidel Bauna	...	Nero (as Fidel M'banga Bauna)
Jacques Stany	...	Commissario
Renzo Montagnani	...	Maccarone
Aldo Maccione	...	Big John

Storyline

A Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman.

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Plot Keywords:

clothes on shower | peeping tom | upskirt | mini skirt | italian sex comedy | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

Italy France

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

21 November 1981 (Italy)

Also Known As:

A Agente em Nova Iorque

Filming Locations:

Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Medusa Distribuzione, Nuova Dania Cinematografica, Les Films Jacques Leitienne

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Italian censorship visa # 77251 delivered on 5-11-1981.

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Connections

References Little Big Man (1970)

User Reviews

Pretty goofy

I've seen all of Edwige Fenech's "schoolteacher" sex comedies (hanging head in shame), but this my first of her "policewoman" sex comedies. She and her diminutive partner (Alvaro Vitali) happen to be the spitting image of, respectively, the mistress and bodyguard of a New York mafioso (Alberto Lionello). So with the help of a Texan FBI agent played by Renzo Montagnini (I do hope the Italians know that Texas and New York City are very different places)they conspire to replace their respective dopplegangers and infiltrate the criminal organization, where they quickly find themselves in the middle of an inept gang war between the mafioso and his severely stuttering Turkish rival.

Fenech had been in a lot movies by this time, and although she had gotten much better as an actress (she deftly manges two distinct characters here) she also regrettably stopped taking off her clothes nearly as much, so it's kind of a double-edged sword. Vitali generally ranged from kinda funny to pretty irritating, and here he's somewhere in between. The idea of him being a vicious mafioso is funny in itself though. Even dubbed, the swarthy Montagnini does not make the most believable "Texan". The two rival gangsters are pretty good, however. And, of course, being Italian, the movie has the usual quota of offensive stereotypes, but they somehow here manage to actually combine the gay and black stereotypes as both Fenech and Vitali are pursued by Africa-American admirers of the same sex.

Director Michele Massimo Tarantini generally wasn't fit to carry the jockstrap of Sergio Martino, Fenech's regular collaborator. This might be one of his better films though. Strangely, soon after this Tarantini ended up in Brazil directing women-in-prison and cannibal films with Brazilian sex star/race car driver Susan Carvahlo. This isn't great, but you could do worse I suppose.