Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man

Original title: Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore

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Adolfo Celi, Ray Lovelock, and Marc Porel in Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)

Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy, who are licenced-to-kill, undercover cops who thrive on living dangerously.Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy, who are licenced-to-kill, undercover cops who thrive on living dangerously.Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy, who are licenced-to-kill, undercover cops who thrive on living dangerously.

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Trivia
A sequel was originally planned, but ended up being scrapped due to Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock not getting along.

Quotes
Fred: ...And who gets it?
Norma: Well, why not ask the Captain?
Fred: No, I mean who gets to go to bed with you? Do I?
Tony: Or, Do I?
Norma: You both may!
Fred: What a sport you are! One of us gets it first by my rules. I'm against threesomes!
Norma: Oh, but after I screw you, I can screw him. Bring a couple of friends if you want to. You take a woman to bed, and what do you give to her? When you reach your extent of possibility, I mean after only one, or two or three orgasms - we women have more in us than you think - I'm prepared to go all night.
[Fred and Tony mutter incoherently and make for the door]
Norma: My dear cocksmen, we girls have to work hard for the inadequate performance we get. We play to your masculine conceit, and make you feel like supermen.
[Tony lights Norma a cigarette]
Norma: Then you invite us to meals with a hundred courses, and you're through after the appetizer.
Fred: Well, listen to Mae West!
Norma: Only if we love someone do we ever get cheated. Then we don't mind how much he fails in bed. I just don't happen to love you.
Fred: Okay, okay - so we go to bed together. Who gets it first?
Norma: As you say, you go together!
Fred: No way!

Connections
Featured in Italian Gangsters (2015)

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Maggie
Written by Ray Lovelock (as Lovelock)
Performed by Ray Lovelock

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8/10

Live Like A Vigilante... Let The Bad Guys Do The Dying

Can best be summed up as the "Spaghetti Starsky & Hutch" but with better car chases, more sex (and sexism) and more violence. Prime 1970s Poliziotteschi up there with the best of Franco Nero, Fabio Testi or Mauricio Merli

'Nuff said, but apparently not enough for an imdb review, so I will continue...

Ray Lovelock looks like another refugee Americano actor following the path most famously trodden by Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Lee van Cleef and his friend Tomas Milian, but in fact he was born in Italy of an Italian mother and English father. He is blond and plays the "Hutch" role.

Marc Porel was born in Switzerland, but his parents were both French actors. He is dark and plays the "Starsky" role.

Adolfo Celi plays the "Captain Dobey" role, his face will be familiar from numerous character parts in post war Hollywood and across European cinema, most notably as supervillain "Emilio Largo" in the James Bond classic "Thunderball"

Silvia Dionisio plays the feisty modern woman who cheerfully puts up with the lads crude sexist banter and gives as good as she gets in the repartee department

Sofia Dionisio gets her kit off.