Director: Carlo Lizzani
Writers: Nicola Badalucco, Luciano Vincenzoni
Composers: Nicola Di Bari, Gian Piero Reverberi, Gianfranco Reverberi
Starring: Bud Spencer, Andrea Balestri, Domenico Santoro, Francoise Fabian, Marcel Bozzuffi, Guido Leontini, Vittorio Duse, Mario Pilar, Saro Urzi
More info: IMDb
Plot: Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his innocence and begin to investigate mafia business in Torino.
My rating: 6.5/10
Will I watch it again? No.
For a Bud Spencer picture, you don't get much Bud Spencer. He's in it in little bits in pieces between the flashbacks and present day. It's funny because I noticed immediately that his American dubbed voice was different than usual and the usual voice actor turned up as another character that seemed to have more screen time. I wonder why he didn't voice Bud. Anyway, the movie isn't much more than an hour and a half but there's a mid section that drags. There's too much detective work on behalf of the kids, the lawyer and cop. The older kid does a fantastic job. Oh, and the dubbing is very good, too. If it were for that pacing problem the picture has for a while it would be much better. The ending is grim and powerful. I didn't see it coming. I would say that's the European sensibility (which does play a part in it) but it's also the seventies when cinema got real and cynical. It's a different kind of Poliziotteschi and that's a good thing. Don't let the kids angle keep you from seeing this. It's much better than it sounds.
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