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The film is the final chapter in the Girolami's Commissioner Betti Trilogy, after Violent Rome and Violent Naples, though a spin-off in the series entitled Weapons of Death would be released the following year. The main theme of the film was used in the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.
Nov 27, 1976 · A Special Cop in Action: Directed by Marino Girolami. With Maurizio Merli, Raymond Pellegrin, John Saxon, Mirella D'Angelo. A crime syndicate starts a crime wave in Turin, they rob a bank, taking a hostage to get away from Police Inspector Betti and Ferrari, his partner.
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- Thriller, Action, Crime
- Marino Girolami
- 1976-11-27
Violent Naples (Italian: Napoli violenta) is a 1976 poliziottesco film directed by Umberto Lenzi. It starred Maurizio Merli, John Saxon and Barry Sullivan, and was the first sequel to Violent Rome and the second entry into the Commissioner Betti Trilogy. Saxon appeared in several such movies.
Apr 6, 2024 · The series of movies this film connects to are Maurizio Merli’s Commissioner Betti trilogy. A successful action thriller franchise that saw three films released in quick succession in 1975 and 1976, Violent Rome , Violent Naples and A Special Cop in Action .
Jul 17, 2019 · Commissioner Betti investigates his final case in the finale of the Trilogy that bears his name. This go around has Betti and the fellow officers working with him, certain that a powerful Turin Mob Boss was the man behind the scenes of a group of children being kidnapped, and conspire to bring him and his empire down.
Violent Rome (Italian: Roma violenta) is an Italian 1975 poliziottesco film directed by Marino Girolami It obtained a great commercial success and launched the career of Maurizio Merli. The film is the first entry into the Commissioner Betti Trilogy.
The second film of a trilogy of poliziotteschi centered around police commissario Betti (Maurizio Merli), an Italian variant of Eastwood's Harry Callahan (Dirty Mustache?), is the only entry not helmed by Marino Girolami, directed instead by Umberto Lenzi (Cannibal Ferox, Almost Human), who earnestly stamps the affair with his unmistakably ...
