It was hard for me to adjust, but I finally managed to cope with the fact that Maurizio Merli is not playing a cop in the film. He's playing a private detective who used to be a cop. After some therapy, I was able to cope with this cataclysmic change and watch the film.
Merli doesn't seem to be that great a PI either. He's totally broke and lets his sidekick Vinnie (Massimo Vanni) deal with all the debts. When trying to mooch a meal in a restaurant, Merli gets a big break - someone in Austria is looking for their daughter and it's up to Merli to track her down. This opens up a whole can of worms that leads Merli to Vienna and a Massimo Dallamano giallo-style plot involving school girls.
Merli hooks up with Gastone Moschine in Vienna and gets caught up trying to solve a different case involving the suspicious death of a minor that leads him to hang around in a car outside of school asking a young girl if she'd like to go for a ride with him. He hasn't got sinister motives though, but icy-eyed Werner Pocath might have, and where does Joan Collins fit in with all this? Don't ask me - ask her boobs!
Look, i'll level with you. This isn't the greatest Stelvio Massi film, nor is it the best Maurzio Merli film (although he's a charmer as usual). It takes far too long for an actual plot to emerge from all the comedic bits at the start of the film (Vanni moaning about not getting paid, annoying the cops, pretending to Gastone that he's a rich James Bond type) and when it does the teenage-prostitute angle doesn't quite fit with the funny bits. About half and hour from the end things get more violent and one character is run down by a car in a scene that's shocking in its abruptness, but it's too little too late.
