Year: 1977
Duration: 01:30:30
Directed by: Tano Cimarosa
Actors: Al Cliver, Ninetto Davoli, Martine Carell, Tano Cimarosa
Language: English
Country: Italy
Also known as: No alla violenza, Ekdikisi kai via, Kuoleman metsästäjä
Description: The plot is simple. After his kid is brutally killed, Tano loses it and embarks on a violent quest for revenge. He also ends up rescuing a kidnapped upperclass lady. Quite the hero! Death Hunt is as cheesy as it is sleazy. In fact the trash factor is so high that if one didn’t know better, one might mistake it for Turkish action film. It’s highly enjoyable, though, and Tano has a lot of fun directing and starring. This time too he has managed to land an impressive cast: poor Al Cliver (who starred in Lustful Mind and Devil Hunter) is cheated out of his leading role but there’s plenty of fun to be had from seeing Paola Quattrini (Edwige Fenech’s stupid friend in The Case of the Bloody Iris) as a rich woman who is kidnapped by a hooded gang of bad guys, sleaze favorite Rick Boyd, Ninetto Davoli (again), Zaira Zoccheddu (Miss Italy 1974 and trash actress extraordinaire) as Cliver’s sister who is attacked and sexually abused, and an early role by Guia Lauri Filzi (who would go on to be one of Italy’s most recognizable porno actresses of the early 1980s), who keeps her clothes on for a change.
Review: Nothing in this «No alla violenza» is not in sight: the plot is falling complicated fragments, the characters look the heroes of newspaper articles, and the narrative stumbles at every step in an attempt to reconcile the accusatory rhetoric and at least some intrigue, able to keep the audience from the exit a demonstration against the Mafia at least until the end of the session. The first half of the film revolves around the action of the Police Commissioner Moretti, who has been fighting with the bandits in a life-and-death. Here he pursues a gang of bikers who killed his colleague in the tavern brawl. Here is fighting with a group of offenders who have stolen the local vaudeville actress. And the end-edge of this war is not in sight. Especially if you look at critical eye Al Cleaver, the actor is not that particularly masterful and talented, but mask the harsh character to keep quite capable. The violence of his character to respond to violence, not knowing and not seeing any other way to stop a crime wave.
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