Highway Racer

Highway Racer
Directed byStelvio Massi
Screenplay byGino Capone
Story byGino Capone[1]
Produced byGiovanni Di Clemente[1]
StarringMaurizio Merli
Cinematography
Edited byMauro Bonanni[1]
Music byStelvio Cipriani[1]
Production
company
Cleminternazionale Cinematografica[1]
Distributed byTitanus
Release date
  • August 10, 1977 (1977-08-10) (Italy)
Running time
105 minutes[1]
CountryItaly[1]
Box office1.308 billion

Highway Racer (originally titled Poliziotto sprint) is a 1977 Italian poliziottesco film directed by Stelvio Massi.[2][3] It was the first collaboration between Massi and Maurizio Merli, who worked together in six titles between 1977 and 1980.

The plot of the film was partly inspired by the career of Armando Spatafora, an Italian "flying squad" police officer whose patrol car was a Ferrari 250 GTE. Many car chases in the film, such as bank robbers in a Citroen DS as well as cars rolling down the Spanish steps, mirror famous police chases in Rome during the 1960s.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Curti 2013, p. 221.
  2. ^ Roberto Curti. Italia odia: il cinema poliziesco italiano. Lindau, 2006.
  3. ^ Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli (2005). Spionaggio, avventura, eroi moderni. Gremese, 2005. ISBN 8884403707.

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