La belva col mitra (1977) or Mag Dog Killer or Ferocious Beast with a Gun packs intrigue , violence , action-filled and being a really effective film . A thrilling movie with ordinary ingredients : thrills , chills, noisy action , plot twists , several villain roles with an extremely psychotic murderer , shootouts with high body-count and being middlingly entertaining from start to finish . Nail-biting thriller in which Comm. Giulio Santini (Richard Harrison) attempts to bring Rome's most powerful crime lord , an escaped sadistic killer named Nanni Vitali (Helmut Berger), to justice . Gripping and moving thriller set in Italy, the story is a fun mess starting with a sadistic , iconoclast , no-count killer called Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums getaway from prison and running on the lam , causing wreak havoc and going bersek . Vitali and his henchmen terrorize the populace and seek vendetta against those responsible for his incarceration , while a tough police inspector attempts to catch the maniacal , trigger-happy crooks . Along the way , Vitali even kidnaps the frightened hapless lass Giuliana Caroli (Marisa Mell) and he mistreats, defiles and rapes her . The commissioner pursues the revenge-obsessed series killer and his hoodlums and encounters he has more problems with him than he expected . In an effort to catch them at whatever cost , he'll stop at nothing to get it . Out of Prison ... Out of Control ... and Totally Out of His Mind! Inspector Santini makes Dirty Harry look like Mr. Clean! .He lives by the law - Santini's Law .. Whatever your reservations about Santini's expeditious methods we know he'll always vanquish , shooting in cold blood with his pistol . Vigilante enforcers - lurking in the dark... waiting to kill!
A violent and extremely nasty film in which foul foursome delinquents embark on a savage rape, murder, and robbery spree, meanwhile, rugged police inspector Giulio Santini strides grimly throughout the streets in pursuit the murderous , including an exciting final .Formula thriller deemed to be a ¨video nasty¨ with plenty of action , crisply edition , tension, intrigue , suspenseful and lots of violence in exploitation style . It turns out to be interesting and plenty of vivid action , suspense and thriller in which a stubborn inspector is determined to trap a despicable criminal . Compellingly directed by Sergio Grieco , this movie got a whole new life thanks to Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown. The character of Melanie : Bridget Fonda is watching television, along with Samuel L. Jackson's Ordell Robie, when the main star is on the screen, after having attacked the girl, Robie says, "Rutger Hauer?" and Melanie corrects him, "Helmut Berger." The film belongs to Poliziesco genre in which rule-breaking cops take on criminals -many of them detained but freed on legal technicalities- determined to bring them to justice , even if they have to break some rules and take the law into his own hands by utilizing his large pistols for killing baddies , acting as a judge , jury and executioner .Titles like Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare (1974), Free Hand For a Tough Cop (1976) , Roma a mano armata or Brutal Justicia (1976) , Brothers Till We Die (1978) , From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979) were the most popular and brutal of these thrillers . Fine main and support cast giving acceptable , though exaggerated interpretations . Stars Helmut Berger as a really ominous series killer and the always beautiful and mysterious Marisa Mell . Surprisingly , the usually wooden Richard Harrison gives a nice performance as two-fisted , rule-bending Inspector Inspector Santini , the tall and taciturn inspector. Futhermore , familar secondary actors as Nello Pazzafini , Luigi Bonos, Antonio Vasile and the father and daughter who are abducted are father and daughter in real life: Claudio Gora and Marina Giodana.
It contains an atmospheric cinematography by Vittorio Bernini shot on location in Lazaretto of Ancona, Ancona, Marche, of Prison break sequence, and Viale Bruno Giordano, Ancona, Marche, in street scenes outside the hotel . The soundtrack is also heard very loudly and adequate by composer Umberto Smaila . The motion picture was regular but professionally directed by Sergio Grieco . He was a good Italian artesan who made a lot of adventures, action and thrillers movies as ¨Sergeant Klems¨, ¨SOS agent 017¨, ¨The mysterious swordsman¨ , ¨Lucrezia Borgia¨, ¨La regina dei Tartaro¨, ¨Il Capitano di Ferro¨, ¨Pirates of the Black Hawk¨ and several others . Rating : 6/10 . Acceptable and passable Euro-thriller.
