07-03-2020, 08:31 AM
Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock star in this Italian buddy-cop film. (BTW, Ray Lovelock starred in Meet Him and Die (1976), mentioned on the gas leak thread, which also featured Elke Sommer.) This movie has a Starsky & Hutch feel to it, only ultra-violent, unconventional and entirely amoral. Their supervisor is ever alarmed at the high body count. Sometimes a criminal will survive the chase and shootout, but rather than take them into custody, the pair will furtively finish them off. Sometimes they'll kill the bad guys even before they do anything wrong. Then there's the women they go through like a chainsaw through wheat. Carefree in their wholesale butchery, they are an adorable pair.
The film is notable for its opening, an insane motorcycle chase and shootout filmed at rush hour in downtown Rome with no permission. Tarantino was deeply impressed by the film, and mentions it in Kill Bill 2.
The film did very well at the box office, and a sequel was planned. But as it turned out (not apparent in the film), Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock didn't like each other.
Ray Lovelock had a long and storied career. A musician as well as actor, he sometimes did the music and even sang the songs for the movies he appeared in. Athletic, with youthful good looks, he remained active throughout his 67 years.
Marc Porel was equally athletic, with youthful good looks, but he succumbed to meningitis at age 34 in Casablanca (the place, not the movie).
The director, Ruggero Deodato, is perhaps best known for his feel-good laugh-fest Cannibal Holocaust.
The film is notable for its opening, an insane motorcycle chase and shootout filmed at rush hour in downtown Rome with no permission. Tarantino was deeply impressed by the film, and mentions it in Kill Bill 2.
The film did very well at the box office, and a sequel was planned. But as it turned out (not apparent in the film), Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock didn't like each other.
Ray Lovelock had a long and storied career. A musician as well as actor, he sometimes did the music and even sang the songs for the movies he appeared in. Athletic, with youthful good looks, he remained active throughout his 67 years.
Marc Porel was equally athletic, with youthful good looks, but he succumbed to meningitis at age 34 in Casablanca (the place, not the movie).
The director, Ruggero Deodato, is perhaps best known for his feel-good laugh-fest Cannibal Holocaust.
I'm nobody's pony.
