Ice cold guys on hot stoves

Movie
German title	Ice cold guys on hot stoves
Original title	Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1976
length	100 (German version 89) minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Ruggero Deodato
script	Fernando Di Leo
production	Alberto Marras Vincenzo Salviani
music	Ubaldo Continiello
camera	Guglielmo Mancori
cut	Gianfranco Simoncelli
occupation
Marc Porel : Antonio Ray Lovelock : Alfredo Adolfo Celi : Chief of Police Silvia Dionisio : Norma Franco Citti : Ruggero Rujinski Marino Masè : Guido Oddi Renato Salvatori : Roberto Pasquini Sergio Ammirata : Sergeant Bruno Corazzari : Morandi Daniele Dublino : Corrupt Policeman Sofia Dionisio : Lina Pasquini (as Flavia Fabiani ) Tom Felleghy : Major Alvaro Vitali : caretaker

Ice cold guys on hot stoves (original title: Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore ) is an Italian police film from 1976 directed by Ruggero Deodato . The German-language premiere took place on September 3, 1976.

action

Antonio and Alfredo are members of a special motorcycle unit of the police, of whose existence hardly anyone knows: They do not arrest the criminals they discover, but kill them. Your boss usually leaves it at admonitions. In particular, they dedicate themselves to the search for Roberto Pasquini, the owner of several gambling dens, a cunning crook who escaped arrest on the advice of corrupt police officers. After killing several members of Pasquini's thugs, they can track him down in his hiding place. Your boss intervenes in good time so that the wanted person survives his arrest.

criticism

“Technically clean and extremely brutal entertainment”, which could also be called “a kind of intellectual fascism”, was what Karsten Thurau saw in his overview of the genre “Terror is directing”. MG calls the film fast-paced and praises the actors, while the lexicon of international films calls it a "little squeamish crime film". Cinema.de describes it as "a clever caricature of the genre's often comic orgies of violence"

Remarks

The film songs Won't Take Too Long and Maggie can be heard, interpreted by lead actor Ray Lovelock and released on single (Idea ID 702).

The German-language cinema and video version was significantly shortened.

Web links

• Cruel types on hot stoves in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon.it
• ... and on the genre sites Pollanetsquad

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry in the Archivio del Cinema Italiano
2. ↑ Michael Cholewa, Karsten Thurau: The Terror directs. Italian gangster and police films 1968–1982. 1999, p. 58
3. ^ In Il Resto del Carlino , March 1976
4. ↑ Ice cold guys on hot ovens. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
5. ↑ Short review with numerous film images
6. ^ Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I film vol. 4. Dal 1970 al 1979. Tomo 2, MZ. Rome 1996, p. 374