Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)

Original title

Il trucido e lo sbirro

Directed by

Umberto Lenzi

Genre

action film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

16

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A tough cop teams up with a brash criminal to take down a gang of kidnappers. The cop uses the criminal's street smarts to navigate the underworld.

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What happens

Free Hand for a Tough Cop (Italian: Il trucido e lo sbirro / The Numbskull and the Cop), also known as Tough Cop, is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi and the second entry into the Tanzi/Moretto/Monnezza shared universe. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi a.k.a. "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's Brothers Till We Die (1978, a sort of sequel of this movie), in Destruction Force by Stelvio Massi (1977) and, with slight differences, in Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici by Bruno Corbucci (1980) and in Francesco Massaro's Il lupo e l'agnello (1980). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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