Free Hand for a Tough Cop

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Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976, Italy) is a Italian Crime film directed by Umberto Lenzi.

Tough Cop - Il trucido e lo sbirro

Main Details

  • Released on August 27, 1976 (Italy)
  • Color
  • Running time: 90 minutes
  • Production Co: S.G.M. Films | Variety Film Production
  • Directed by Umberto Lenzi
  • Produced by Claudio Mancini, Ugo Tucci
  • Written by Umberto Lenzi, Dardano Sacchetti, Elisa Briganti
  • Starring Tomas Milian, Claudio Cassinelli, Henry Silva
  • Music by Bruno Canfora
  • Cinematography by Luigi Kuveiller
  • Edited by Eugenio Alabiso

Plot Summary

  • When his former partner-in-crime kidnaps a critically-ill girl to blackmail her rich father, a shabby crook teams up with a hard-nosed cop to save her.

Also Known As

  • Il trucido e lo sbirro (original title)
  • Tough Cop
  • France (video title) La mort en sursis
  • France - Le Cave sort de sa planque
  • France (DVD title) Le clan des pourris
  • France - Le truand sort de sa planque
  • Greece - S.O.S. Exontosate apagogeis
  • Greece (video title) Sfageas kai batsos
  • Greece (video title) To traino tou thanatou
  • Portugal - A Lei dos Duros
  • Germany - Das Schlitzohr und der Bulle
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