Flash solo

Movie
German title	Flash solo
Original title	Il giustiziere sfida la città
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1975
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Umberto Lenzi
script	Vincenzo Mannino
production	Luciano Martino
music	Franco Micalizzi
camera	Federico Zanni
cut	Daniele Alabiso
occupation
Tomás Milián : Rambo Joseph Cotten : Paternò Adolfo Lastretti : Ciccio Paternò Mario Piave : Pino Scalia Maria Fiore : Maria Scalia Duilio Cruciani : Luigino Scalia Silvano Tranquilli : Dott. Marco Marsili Alessandro Cocco : Giampiero Marsili Luciano Catenacci : Conti Femi Benussi : Flora Guido Alberti : owner of the billiard saloon Tom Felleghy : Comandante Ferrari Antonio Casale : Philip Duval Mario Novelli : Franco

Flash Solo (original title: Il giustiziere sfida la città ) is an Italian crime film that received its German premiere on May 4, 1984 - almost ten years after its creation. The film's alternative video title is Der Vernichter .

action

Rambo visits his old childhood friend Pino after a long time. Pino leads a civil life. He is a police officer and has a wife and a son. Pino wants to recruit Rambo for the police, but Rambo refuses this request.

When the son of an industrialist is kidnapped, Pino sees his chance. He wants to arrest the criminals. Pino has learned that the gangster Conti and his gang are behind the kidnapping. Pino has to pay for his investigation with his death. Rambo is appalled by the death of his friend and does not want to leave his death unpunished. He points out to the rival gang of gangsters from Paternò that Conti was behind the kidnapping. At first the groups of Conti and Paternò fight each other. Several gang members are killed. After heavy losses, Ciccio Paternò brokered a peace agreement between the two criminal groups. Both groups now want to kill Rambo together.

Rambo is lucky to survive an assassination attempt. As a result he succeeds in tricking the groups, freeing the boy and killing Conti. Isolated and humiliated at the end of the fighting, Paternò commits suicide. Rambo foregoes any reward and drives away on his motorcycle.

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged the work to be “an action-packed gangster film with a clear vigilante mentality; the extremely brutal passages of the film are partly defused by the comedic play. ” Michael Cholewa directs the standard genre work Der Teufel :“ Umberto Lenzi has once again succeeded in another entertaining showpiece. ”The Segnalazioni Cinematografiche praised the very good staging and representation and noted , The well-known motives for kidnapping and vigilante justice find a new interpretation in that “the protagonist, like the old knights on their horse, now on his motorcycle without paying attention to money or prestige, campaigns for the defense of the weak (even if wealthy) and the oppressed . "

synchronization

German speakers are u. a. Thomas Danneberg , Arnold Marquis , Ronald Nitschke , Manfred Lehmann , Gerd Duwner and Bettina Schön .

Remarks

The film music was released on CD (Digitmovies CDDM 176).

The film was unindexed in December 2016.

Web links

• Flash Solo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon.it

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Flash Solo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ "The Terror is Directing - The Italian Gangster and Police Film" by Michael Cholewa and Karsten Thurau, p. 65, 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-931608-91-0
3. ↑ Segnalazioni Cinematografiche, Vol. 80, 1976
4. ↑ Data in the synchronized files