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Killer Cop (Italian: La polizia ha le mani legate) is a 1975 Italian poliziottesco-crime film directed in 1975 by Luciano Ercoli. The film's plot reprises the Piazza Fontana bombing which happened in Milan in 1969. The gun in the umbrella used in the movie is similar to a Bulgarian umbrella used at London in 1978 to kill Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov.[2]^{[page needed]}[3]^{[page needed]}

Killer Cop
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Directed by	Luciano Ercoli
Screenplay by	Gianfranco Gallgarich[1]
Story by	Mario Bregni[1]
Produced by	Alberto Pugliese Luciano Ercoli[1]
Starring	Claudio Cassinelli Arthur Kennedy Franco Fabrizi Sara Sperati
Cinematography	Marcello Gatti[1]
Edited by	Angelo Curi[1]
Music by	Stelvio Cipriani[1]
Production company	Prouzioni Atlas consorziate[1]
Distributed by	Prouzioni Atlas consorziate
Release date	27 March 1975 (1975-03-27) (Italy)
Running time	95 minutes[1]
Country	Italy[1]
Language	Italian
Box office	₤854.8 million

Cast

• Claudio Cassinelli as Commissioner Matteo Rolandi
• Arthur Kennedy as Armando Di Federico
• Franco Fabrizi as Luigi Balsamo
• Sara Sperati as Papaya Girotti
• Bruno Zanin as Franco Ludovisi
• Valeria D'Obici as Falena
• Enzo Fisichella as Francalancia
• Paolo Poiret as Rocco Altieri
• Giovanni Cianfriglia as Hitman
• Jack Lemmon as Narrator (voice, English version)

Production

Killer Cop was shot in Milan.[1] Killer Cop's plot is influenced from the Piazza Fontana bombings.[4] The funerals seen in the film on a television screen are actual footage of the funerals of the victims of the bombings.[4]

Release

Killer Cop was released in Italy on March 27, 1975 where it was distributed by Prouzioni Atlas consorziate (P.A.C.).[1] It grossed 854,798,250 Italian lire.[1]

Killer Cop has been released on DVD in Italy by Cecchi Gori with a running time of 92 minutes and 58 seconds.[1]

Footnotes

References

External links

• Killer Cop at IMDb

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