Killer Cop

Killer Cop
Killer Cop
	DVD Cover
Directed by	Luciano Ercoli
Screenplay by	Gianfranco Gallgarich
Story by	Mario Bregni
Produced by	Alberto Pugliese; Luciano Ercoli;
Starring	Claudio Cassinelli; Arthur Kennedy; Franco Fabrizi; Sara Sperati;
Cinematography	Marcello Gatti
Edited by	Angelo Curi
Music by	Stelvio Cipriani
Production; company	Prouzioni Atlas consorziate
Distributed by	Prouzioni Atlas consorziate
Release date	27 March 1975 (Italy);
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Box office	₤854.8 million

Killer Cop (Italian: La polizia ha le mani legate, literally the police's hands are tied) is a 1975 Italian poliziottesco-crime film directed in 1975 by Luciano Ercoli. The film's plot reprises the Piazza Fontana bombing which happened in Milan in 1969. The gun in the umbrella used in the movie is similar to a Bulgarian umbrella used in London in 1978 to kill Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov.^[2]^{[page needed]}^[3]^{[page needed]}

Cast

Claudio Cassinelli as Commissioner Matteo Rolandi
Arthur Kennedy as Armando Di Federico
Franco Fabrizi as Luigi Balsamo
Sara Sperati as Papaya Girotti
Bruno Zanin as Franco Ludovisi
Valeria D'Obici as Falena
Enzo Fisichella as Francalancia
Paolo Poiret as Rocco Altieri
Giovanni Cianfriglia as Hitman
Jack Lemmon as Narrator (voice, English version)

Production

Killer Cop was shot in Milan.^[1] Killer Cop's plot is influenced from the Piazza Fontana bombings.^[4] The funerals seen in the film on a television screen are actual footage of the funerals of the victims of the bombings.^[4]

Release

Killer Cop was released in Italy on 27 March 1975 where it was distributed by Prouzioni Atlas consorziate (P.A.C.).^[1] It grossed 854,798,250 Italian lire.^[1]

Killer Cop has been released on DVD in Italy by Cecchi Gori with a running time of 92 minutes and 58 seconds.^[1]

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Curti 2013, p. 138.
^ Christian Uva. Schermi di piombo: il terrorismo nel cinema italiano. Rubbettino, 2007.
^ Sindacato nazionale critici cinematografici italiani. Cine critica , Volume 12. SNCCI, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Curti 2013, p. 139.

References

Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968–1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765.

External links

Killer Cop at IMDb

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[FOOTNOTECurti2013138-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Curti 2013, p. 138.

[2] Christian Uva. Schermi di piombo: il terrorismo nel cinema italiano. Rubbettino, 2007.

[3] Sindacato nazionale critici cinematografici italiani. Cine critica , Volume 12. SNCCI, 2007.

[FOOTNOTECurti2013139-4] Curti 2013, p. 139.

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v t e Films by Luciano Ercoli
Films directed	Le foto proibite di una signora per bene (1970) La morte cammina con i tacchi alti (1971) La morte accarezza a mezzanotte (1972) Il figlio della sepolta viva (1974) Lucrezia Giovane (1974) Troppo rischio per un uomo solo (1974) The Police Can't Move (1975)
Films produced	Odissea nuda (1961) What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (1964) A Pistol for Ringo (1965) The Return of Ringo (1966) Le foto proibite di una signora per bene (1970)