''Shoot First, Die Later'' ( it, Il poliziotto è marcio) is a 1974 Italian
poliziottesco
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noir film
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directed by
Fernando Di Leo.
Di Leo reprises some elements of the novel ''Rogue Cop'' by
William P. McGivern
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His novels wer ...
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[ ]Luc Merenda
Luc Charles Olivier Merenda (born 3 September 1943) is a French film actor.
He was one of the most prominent actors of the Italian poliziotteschi genre, working several times with Sergio Martino and Fernando Di Leo. He is of Italian origin thr ...
later starred in two other Di Leo's films, ''Kidnap Syndicate
''Kidnap Syndicate'' ( it, La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori, lit=The City is Shaken: Ruthless Pursuit of the Kidnappers) is a 1975 Italian ''poliziottesco'' film directed by Fernando Di Leo. Even being a minor work in the Di Leo's ...
'' and ''Nick the Sting
''Nick the Sting'' ( it, Gli amici di Nick Hezard) is a 1976 Italian film directed by Fernando Di Leo. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti.
Cast
* Luc Merenda as Nick Hezard
*Lee J. Cobb as Robert Clark
*Gabriele Ferzetti as Maurice
*Luciana Paluzzi ...
''.
Plot
A policeman who has dealings with local crime begins to get in over his head. At first content with taking payments for helping contraband tobacco and alcohol escape notice of the authorities, he draws the line when the criminals get into the drug smuggling business. A local busybody has inadvertently witnessed the disposal of one of their victims and reported their licence plates to the policeman's father, who is a sergeant. Gradually more people around him turn up dead and he becomes increasingly desperate.
Cast
*Luc Merenda
Luc Charles Olivier Merenda (born 3 September 1943) is a French film actor.
He was one of the most prominent actors of the Italian poliziotteschi genre, working several times with Sergio Martino and Fernando Di Leo. He is of Italian origin thr ...
: Domenico Malacarne
*Delia Boccardo
Delia Boccardo (born 29 January 1948) is an Italian film, television and stage actress.
Life and career
Born in Genoa, Boccardo spent her childhood and adolescence in Nervi, then studied at a Swiss college, at the Poggio Imperiale girls' sch ...
: Sandra
*Richard Conte
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: Mazzoni
*Raymond Pellegrin
Raymond Pellegrin (1 January 1925 – 14 October 2007) was a French actor.
Born in Nice, Pellegrin made his screen debut in the 1945 French feature '' Naïs''.
He was also famous in France for dubbing Jean Marais for the voice of Fantômas ...
: Pascal
*Vittorio Caprioli
Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions.
Biography
Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated fr ...
: Esposito
*Salvo Randone
Salvatore "Salvo" Randone (25 September 1906 – 6 March 1991) was an Italian theatrical, television and film actor.
Born in Syracuse, Sicily, Randone debuted on stage in mid-1920s and, after some years in which he played roles of little w ...
: Marshal Malacarne, father of Domenico
*Gianni Santuccio: Quaestor
*Elio Zamuto
Elio Zamuto (born 1 May 1941 in Syracuse) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
Life and career
Born in Syracuse as Elio Mazzamuto, Zamuto started his career in the mid-1960s, and had a prolific career between television and cinema, especially ...
: Rio
*Marisa Traversi: Countess Nevio
* Aldo Valletti
Release
''Shoot First, Die Later'' was distributed theatrically in Italy by Titanus
Titanus is an Italian film production company, founded in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo (1885–1951). The company's headquarters are located at 28 Via Sommacampagna, Rome and its studios on the Via Tiburtina, 13 km from the centre of Rome.
Lom ...
on 22 March 1974. The film grossed a total of 675,994,000 Italian lire
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on its domestic release.
See also
* List of Italian films of 1974
A list of films produced in Italy in 1974 (see 1974 in film):
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1974 films
1974 crime films
1970s crime action films
1970s Italian-language films
Films directed by Fernando Di Leo
Poliziotteschi films
Films scored by Luis Bacalov
Films with screenplays by Sergio Donati
1970s Italian films
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