À main armée

Titre original : Roma a mano armata

1976
18+
1h 35m

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Maurizio Merli and Tomas Milian in À main armée (1976)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA tough, rule-bending cop pursues a maniacal, trigger-happy hunchback, a one-handed bank robber and their cronies in an effort to bring Rome's most powerful crime lord to justice.A tough, rule-bending cop pursues a maniacal, trigger-happy hunchback, a one-handed bank robber and their cronies in an effort to bring Rome's most powerful crime lord to justice.A tough, rule-bending cop pursues a maniacal, trigger-happy hunchback, a one-handed bank robber and their cronies in an effort to bring Rome's most powerful crime lord to justice.

Director
- Umberto Lenzi
Writers
- Umberto Lenzi
- Dardano Sacchetti
Stars

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,9/10

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Director
- Umberto Lenzi
Writers
- Umberto Lenzi
- Dardano Sacchetti
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Anecdotes
When Terry Levene distributed this film in the late 1970s, he replaced a few of the establishing shots with those of American locations. For an establishing shot of the Rome youth center where Tanzi meets Stefano, Levine used a shot of the Manhattan nightclub "Fascination". Strangely enough, in the later Umberto Lenzi film Da Corleone a Brooklyn (1979) (which also starred Maurizio Merli as an Italian policeman), Merli drives by the club "Fascination" after he arrives in New York.

Gaffes
The way Tony is shot would have hurt Leonardo too.

Citations
Commissioner Leonardo Tanzi: [Last lines] Freeze!
Vincenzo Moretto, 'Il gobbo': Sorry if I'm interrupting you, copper! Let's go back tot he old ways, huh?
[Holds up a 9mm bullet]
Vincenzo Moretto, 'Il gobbo': Come on, be a good man. Remember this? I crapped it out for you?
Commissioner Leonardo Tanzi: Yeah, go on . Kill me. You and Ferrender are done for. This place is surrounded.
Vincenzo Moretto, 'Il gobbo': You heard him? He's still talking about Ferrender. You bloody fool! I killed him 3 months ago, arsehole! Who do you think it was at the morgue?
[Kicks Tanzi]
Vincenzo Moretto, 'Il gobbo': Who the fuck do you think it was?
Commissioner Caputo: Stop! Drop the gun. Drop it!
[Moretto does so]
Commissioner Caputo: Turn around.
[He does so]
Commissioner Caputo: There are no suicide attempts this time, because I'll kill you myself. Like a wild dog.
Commissioner Leonardo Tanzi: No, Caputo! You can't!
Commissioner Caputo: [sighs] OK.
[Proceeds to handcuff Moretto]
Commissioner Leonardo Tanzi: [Caputo is shot] Caputo! NO!
[He takes Caputo's gun, and goes after Moretto, who is escaping, and corners him in a dead end, and yells loudly]
Commissioner Leonardo Tanzi: FREEZE!
[Shoots him several times, killing him, and Moretto falls to the floor, firing one round from his handgun, and dies]

Générique farfelu
The opening credits are played while the camera in first person view mode (From a criminal's POV) drives through Rome looking at banks and building societies and leaves the city through a long, dark tunnel as the credits end.

Autres versions
The American release by Aquarius Distribution entitled "Assault with a Deadly Weapon" is missing the first 10 minutes, the beginning credits, and the ending credits. The American version also has several of the scenes reshot so that the originally Italian words on buildings and on people's notes appear in English. Also, the beginning credits list a variety of made-up Americanized names and credit Terry Levene (the head of Aquarius Distribution) as the film's producer.

Connexions
Edited from Milano trema: la polizia vuole giustizia (1973)

Bandes originales
Se l'avrebbe saputo
(If he'd known)
Composed by Roberto Donati (as Donati) and Fiamma Maglione (as Maglione)
Sung by Fiamma Maglione

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Pretty dumb but thoroughly entertaining

This is a dumb, but thoroughly enjoyable Italian police thriller from journey-man Italian director Umberto Lenzi. Maurizio Merli is not my favorite actor (he was kind of a cut-rate Franco Nero), but he's pretty entertaining here as an over-the-top vigilante cop who slaps around suspects, engages in dangerous high-speed chases, and has shoot-outs in busy downtown Rome. When five young punks rape a girl, he goes into their hangout BY HIMSELF and beats up ALL of them up before chasing down and eventually shooting one of them to death. Even when his superior (Arthur Kennedy) transfers him to the licenses unit, he won't stay out of the action. In one of the funnier scenes, he beats information out of a bartender, breaks into a suspect's apartment without a warrant, and chases him around the Rome rooftops (in a great cinematic scene), but after the whole thing goes awry, he blames his superiors for making him go "by the book" (if that's true I'd hate to see "the book").

This movie has a great supporting cast. Besides Arthur Kennedy (who was in movies like "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" and "Rico, the Mean Machine"), the movie features Ivan Rassimov, perhaps somewhat wasted as a low-level thug who gives his girlfriend an overdose of heroin simply because she's a "pain in the ass". The best of all though, is the great Tomas Milian as a psychotic hunchback, who starts out as a sympatheic figure, but turns out to be a frightening heavy. In one scene Meri's detective slaps him around and makes him swallow a bullet, which he later he craps out and vows to shoot the detective in the face with face with it for revenge!

The real weakness of this movie is the loose plotting. There's a lot of action set pieces, but the whole thing doesn't really hold together, especially whenever Milian is not on screen. The movie also could have used more women. Merli does have a pretty girlfriend (who the villains at one point threaten to put through a car compactor), but her role is pretty perfunctory.Still this is definitely a fun movie and I would recommend it.