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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.
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.
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.
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 .
This, the third and last in the Commissioner Betti series, following on from Marino Girolami’s Roma violenta and Umberto Lenzi’s Napoli violenta, sees Maurizio Merli’s dedicated, no-nonsense lawman presented with gangs of armed robbers and kidnappers.
A bank heist where the robbers get away with a hostage in their car, and a busload of kids get kidnapped at the same time are the first things to land on Maurizio Merli's infamous Commissioner Betti's plate during the first ten minutes of this fast paced final Betti movie.
