Free Hand for a Tough Cop

Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Directed byUmberto Lenzi
Written byUmberto Lenzi
Dardano Sacchetti
Elisa Briganti
Produced byClaudio Mancini
Ugo Tucci
StarringTomas Milian
Claudio Cassinelli
Henry Silva
CinematographyLuigi Kuveiller
Edited byEugenio Alabiso
Music byBruno Canfora
Distributed byVariety Distribution
Release date
  • 28 August 1976 (1976-08-28)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Box office509,747 million

Free Hand for a Tough Cop (Italian: Il trucido e lo sbirro / The Numbskull and the Cop), also known as Tough Cop, is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi and the second entry into the Tanzi/Moretto/Monnezza shared universe.[1] In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi a.k.a. "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's Brothers Till We Die (1978, a sort of sequel of this movie), in Destruction Force by Stelvio Massi (1977) and, with slight differences, in Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici by Bruno Corbucci (1980) and in Francesco Massaro's Il lupo e l'agnello (1980).[2][3]

  1. ^ Mike Malloy Grindhouse Releasing Audio Commentary, 2019. Last accessed: February 2023.
  2. ^ "Il trucido e lo sbirro" (in Italian). B-Movie Zone. 15 January 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  3. ^ Alberto Pallotta. Quel fenomeno der Monnezza. Un Mondo A Parte, 2005. pp. 11–13.

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