A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the clues point to a penniless man who had an argument with the victim a short time before the murder.
Acting
Tomas Milian's Nico Giraldi—sloppy, sarcastic, weirdly lovable.
Direction
Corbucci blending poliziotteschi grit with straight-up slapstick.
Director
Bruno Corbucci
Tomas Milian
Nico Giraldi
Marina Ripa di Meana
Eleonora Ruffini
Roberta Manfredi
Angela Santi
Alberto Farnese
Manfredo Ruffini
Massimo Vanni
Brigadier Gargiulo
Enzo Liberti
Otello 'Er Pinna' Santi
Marino Masé
Enzo Nardelli
Angelo Pellegrino
Procurator Luciano Canuti
Renato Mori
Police Commissioner Galbiati
Leo Gavero
Judge Laurenzi
Bombolo
Venticello
Enzo Andronico
Defence Attorney Garrone
Andrea Aureli
Presiding Judge
Antonio Cascio
Giovanni Tuccimei
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is the fourth of eleven Nico Giraldi films—Milian played the character from 1976 to 1984, making him Italy's most committed sloppy detective.
Bruno Corbucci directed this while his brother Sergio was still defining the spaghetti western; the family basically built Italian genre cinema from rival kitchens.
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