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Convoy Busters (1978)

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Jun 122010

U.S. DVD Release

“Macho, macho man! I want to be a macho man!”

The ‘Poliziottesco’ genre couldn’t have asked for a more fitting song. With big tough men, often sporting gloriously oversized mustaches and even bigger guns, strut around most major Italian cities making their own laws and following their own rules. It’s a genre that contains more immorality than a whorehouse in Mexico, and that’s just the Police force!

Tough guys like Franco Nero, Maurizio Merli and Fabio Testi made a killing off of these types of characters. It’s not hard to see why this genre was so big in Italy in the 70’s: what with all the Red Brigades blowing shit up and political corruption causing many a headache. The ‘every-day man Continue reading »

A Man Called Magnum (1977)

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Jun 122010

U.S. DVD Release

More Euro crime-slime from those lovely folks overt at NoShame, it’s a rather odd release. It’s not exactly a classic, or even a cult item, but they have felt fit to unleash it onto the market for fans of Italian B-cinema too lap up! The fact that it also features the awesome talents of Luc Merenda (Sergio Martino’s Torso) pretty much guarantees there’ll be a few interested fans out there eager to catch a film with him on leading man duty.

Inspector Dario Mauri (Merenda) is a top Milanese cop who is sent down to the dirty-south of Naples to help lower the ever growing mob activity. Too bad then, that two rival gangs are about to go to war over a stolen shipment of Continue reading »

The Last Round (1976)

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Jun 122010

U.S. DVD Release

Here’s a novel idea. Update Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars for the politioztechi crowd, so it will feel like the Wild, Wild West… with flares. What’s not to love about that, right? And the answer is nothing what so ever. No Shame has saved this title from obscurity and there are going to be many, many fans rejoicing once they pop this beauty into their DVD player.

Arriving in Milan from an unspecified southern city, Marco Russo (Carlos Monzon) looks like he has a score to settle. Arriving with a rucksack and music box, containing the picture of two women, he sets out to complete his mission. Meeting two hermits Wis (short for wisdom) and a blind girl Continue reading »