Brigade spéciale

Titre original : Roma a mano armata

1976
16
1h 35min

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Maurizio Merli and Tomas Milian in Brigade spéciale (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.

Réalisation
- Umberto Lenzi
Scénario
- Umberto Lenzi
- Dardano Sacchetti
Casting principal

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6,9/10

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Réalisation
- Umberto Lenzi
Scénario
- Umberto Lenzi
- Dardano Sacchetti
Casting principal

Voir les informations de production sur 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 Corléone à 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]

Crédits fous
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.

Versions alternatives
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 Polices parallèles (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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6/10

(not) What you would expect...

Synopsis of the movie makes you believe that you will be watching a non-stop rampage throughout Rome where a police detective is hunting down dangerous hunchback. I'm sorry to say that isn't the case here. The hunchback is absent for more than a half of the movie, action is very dull and limited and the whole thing is more a crime movie than anything else with for the time usual tough as nails inspector trying to hunt down criminals. The movie is entertaining and even a bit shocking in it's brutality, but other than that, it's nothing special and feels devalued by the passage of time. I recommend it only to the genre fans, but others won't find anything more than a mediocre crime movie here. 6/10!