''Mean Tricks'' (original name: ''Hornsby e Rodriguez - Sfida criminale'') is a 1992

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produced in

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and directed by

Umberto Lenzi Umberto Lenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and novelist. A fan of film since young age, Lenzi studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and made his first film in 1958 which went unr ...

. Released in 1992, it starred Charles Napier,

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and

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. It was shot between Kinepolis Studios in

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and

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Plot

Hornsby, a recently retired FBI agent (Charles Napier) goes to South America to find his old partner because rumor has it that his old partner has become a criminal. When the former partner is killed, Hornsby alters the crime scene to make it appear that his ex-partner killed the gunman himself. The rest of the movie follows Hornsby as he tries to discover who killed his partner and why.

Cast

* Charles Napier as Brian Hornsby *

as Rodriguez * Iris Peynado as Candelaria * David Brandon as Jimmy Gandelman / Cobra *

as Frank Mendoza * Bettina Giovannini *

Stelio Candelli Stelio Candelli (born 28 March 1931) is an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career Born in Trieste, the son of civil servants, in 1954 Candelli enrolled at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, graduating in 1957. The sam ...

* Salvatore Lago * Italo Clemente * Marco Felicioli * Enzo Frattari *

Marco Onorato Marco Onorato (18 May 1953 – 2 June 2012) was an Italian cinematographer. Biography He is best known for being the cinematographer of all of Matteo Garrone's movies till his death. He won the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer for '' ...

* Riccardo Petrazzi * Elena Wiedermann * Roberto Ricci * Marcello Tallone * Emy Valentino * Doris Susanna Vonthury

References

External links

* 1992 films Italian crime thriller films 1992 crime thriller films 1990s Italian-language films English-language Italian films Films directed by Umberto Lenzi Films scored by Franco Micalizzi 1990s Italian films 1992 multilingual films Italian multilingual films {{crime-thriller-film-stub