Cop Hunter
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| German title | Cop Hunter |
| Original title | Italia a mano armata |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 190 minutes |
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| Director |
Marino Girolami (as Franco Martinelli ) |
| script | Vincenzo Mannino |
| production | Antonio Visone |
| music | Franco Micalizzi |
| camera | Fausto Zuccoli |
| cut | Vincenzo Tomassi |
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Cop Hunter (original title: Italia a mano armata ) is an Italian policeman by the director Marino Girolami from 1976 with Maurizio Merli in the leading role. The German-language premiere took place on November 12, 1987 on video.
action
A school bus is hijacked in Turin. At the same time a bank is robbed. A bank employee dies in the robbery. Commissioner Betti is called to the bank. But the bank robbers take a hostage. Betti has to let the bank robbers go. It turns out that the hostage was actually an accomplice of the gang. The journalists and the parents of the kidnapped children make serious allegations against police work. Betti only manages to calm the angry journalists and parents with difficulty.
Betti visits Commissioner Arpino in Milan. Both meet the police informant Fabbri. Fabbri reports of an imminent bank robbery on the Banca d'Italia . Betti and Arpino lie in wait for the criminals. They are surprised by the police during the attack and take the audience in the bank hostage. Betti realizes that the alleged hostage is the gang boss Sergio Boretti. He appears to enter into the negotiation with the bank robbers. The bank robbers threaten to shoot their hostage, but Merli negotiates tough and threatens to use the snipers. The gangsters surrender. Boretti is the head of the group.
The child kidnappers were hiding on a farm near Milan. Morelli ambushes a maid on a dirt road and tries to rape her. This manages to escape. In the meantime, one of the kidnapped children has died. The maid reports the attempted rape to the police. Betti has the farm surrounded by a police force. The kidnappers threaten to murder one child after the other every five minutes. The dead child is thrown outside the door. The dead child is Massimo, Luisa's brother. Betti offers herself in exchange for the hostage. The criminals flee in a car. On the autobahn, Betti is thrown out of the car. Betti happily survived this process without serious injuries.
A little later a burned car is found. There's a body in the car. The police informant tells Arpino that the cremated body is Marcuso. His mistake was punished by the mafia. By attempting rape, he had led the police on the trail of the criminals. Fabbri is later murdered in a quarry. Fabbri has to die the death of all the informers, he is chained to a car and the car accelerates cruelly.
Betti and the police have since found two other members of the child kidnapping gang at the Milan wholesale market. After a wild chase in which several police officers die, Betti and the emergency services manage to hunt down the criminals. These deny any connection to Albertelli.
Albertelli visits Lazzari in his yacht club. Albertelli makes Lazzari drunk. When Inspector Betti appears, the drunken Lazzari wants to shoot Betti. Betti manages to shoot Lazzari in self-defense. On instructions from Albertini, Morel has Lazzari's weapon disappear. As a result, Betti is suspected of cold-blooded murder. The public prosecutor has Betti locked up in prison in Milan. Alberini offered a high premium to Betti's head. A prisoner sentenced to life in prison wants to murder Betti. Betti succeeds in rendering the prisoner harmless. This is subsequently sentenced to dark imprisonment. The police manage to spare Betti from imprisonment.
Gangster boss Albertelli comes under pressure for his part. The smuggling mafia wants to do more business with him. Albertelli would rather put this off. Betti had succeeded in installing a police informant, Cacace, as a driver for Albertelli. In a fictitious accident with a motorcycle, Albertelli is taken to an alleged hospital. Albertelli is put there under narcotics. Albertelli assumes that he was seriously injured and tells his Cacace where to meet the people behind the smuggling mafia. Cacace is supposed to report the accident to Bertoli, Attardi and Forestier and postpone the handover of the smuggled goods. Cacace reveals the plans to Betti and the police. At the meeting point, the police and customs are now waiting for the smugglers' gang. The smugglers notice the betrayal. Bertoli and Artadi die after heavy firefights. Only Forestier manages to escape. Inspector Arpino is run over by Forestier and considered seriously injured as a cripple.
Albertelli managed to escape from the alleged hospital. He wants to meet with Morel. Forestier ambushes him when he meets Morel. Albertelli is shot dead in the street by Forestier. Betti is shot dead on the street while meeting Luisa.
Reviews
"Hard thriller."
“Cop Hunter is probably one of the best car chases in film history. (...) Genre veteran Marino Girolami lists violent crimes here as if from the criminal code. The whole thing is so compact and entertaining filmed and edited that the almost 96 minutes seem really short. "
Web links
- Cop Hunter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cop Hunter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ "The Terror is Directed - The Italian Gangster and Police Film" by Michael Cholewa and Karsten Thurau, p. 42, 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-931608-91-0