''Speed Cross'' is a 1980 Italian
crime
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action film
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directed by
Stelvio Massi
Stelvio Massi (26 March 1929 – 26 March 2004), sometimes credited "Max Steel", was an Italian director known for his "''poliziotteschi''" films.
Career
Massi entered the cinema industry in 1952 as assistant camera operator, and in 1954 he becam ...
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Cast
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Fabio Testi
Fabio Testi (born 2 August 1941) is an Italian actor. After growing up witnessing film work done around Lake Garda, Testi entered the sets of the film and began work as a stuntman and a double on set, where he worked as a stuntman on ''The Good, ...
: Paolo Corti
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Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Vittorio Mezzogiorno (16 December 1941 – 7 January 1994) was an Italian actor.
Biography
Mezzogiorno was born in Cercola, the youngest of seven children. His older brother Vincenzo, who wanted to become a director, introduced him to the thea ...
: Nicola Cellamare
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Daniela Poggi
Daniela Poggi (born 17 October 1954) is an Italian film and stage actress and television presenter.
Background
Born in Savona, at young age Poggi studied ballet, then graduated from Linguistic High-school. Following her family she moved in Mil ...
: Inge
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Jacques Herlin
Jacques Herlin (17 August 1927 – 7 June 2014) was a French character actor.
Born in Paris as Jacques de Jouette, he appeared in an impressive number of films from the early sixties. He was also active on stage and on television. He died i ...
: Fischer
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José Luis de Vilallonga
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In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...
: Meyer
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Lia Tanzi
Lia Tanzi (born 3 November 1948) is an Italian actress and television personality.
Life and career
Born in Buenos Aires to Italian parents, Tanzi moved to Parma at young age. She studied acting at the Drama School of the Piccolo Teatro in Mil ...
: Resi
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Massimo Ghini
Massimo Ghini (born 12 October 1954) is an Italian actor. Life
He has worked with Franco Zeffirelli, Giorgio Strehler, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, and Gabriele Lavia, among others.
He has been married to actress Nancy Brilli, and is the father ...
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List of Italian films of 1980
This is a list of Italian films that premiered or were originally released in 1980 (see 1980 in film).
Footnotes
References
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* Shipka, Danny. ''Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980''. ...
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1980 films
1980s crime action films
Films directed by Stelvio Massi
Italian crime action films
1980s Italian films
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