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The Left Hand of the Law
Drinks, liqueurs and
natural waters, kindly offered by the sponsors on display, and several
curious cameos (Enrico Maria Salerno, Janet Agren and Peppino di
Capri), add up to one of the best titles ever for a poliziottesco.
I would love to go on listing the special features and merits of this
1975 film but I have to stop here. adding that it is one of the most
boring works in the genre.
And to say that Giuseppe Rosati starts with gunshots (okay...in a
shooting range) and then with a long and spectacular chase. An action
beginning that flows into a barrage of words and the most classic and
obvious stereotypes of the genre.
First we have an iron commissioner, played by Leonardo Manzella, better
known to genre film lovers as Leonard Mann, who slips away without an
ounce of the strength and charisma of his better-known colleagues.
Obviously he has big problems with his wife played by Antonella Murgia
(whom the villains then take out by mistake). And surprisingly, we also
find a mistress, that is Janet Agren, but absolutely useless to the
story.
Our iron-fisted commissioner called Murri, after losing two important
men on his team following the kidnapping of a businessman from Genoa
who lives in Rome, starts investigating and discovers that there is a
political conspiracy way up high to destabilise the Italian Republic.
And he begins the fight against the bad guys without half measures,
finding support in a minister played by Enrico Maria Salerno and some
of his men.
All very simple and above all predictable for a film that has a
direction incapable of highlighting the best moments (apart from the
first chase scene) and a cast that does not quite work.
The soundtrack is saved, although even that only reproduces the typical sounds of the genre.