'' Il commissario di ferro'' ( is a 1978 Italian ''

poliziottesco Poliziotteschi (; singular ''poliziottesco'') constitute a subgenre of crime and action films that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s. They are also known as ''polizieschi all'italiana'', ...

'' film directed by Stelvio Massi.

Plot

Commissioner Mauro Mariani is known for his severity towards criminals and for his habit of acting on his own, which cost him the transition from Dr. Crivelli's mobile team to a simple neighborhood police station, where he can assist him. it's Brigadier Ingravallo. One day, while Mariani is with his wife Vera and his son Claudio, from whom he usually lives separated, a boy named Sergio Conforti bursts into his office and, holding an officer under the gun, forces him to call the absent commissioner because he wants to kill, considering him guilty of his father's suicide, arrested by Mariani two years earlier. The commissioner finds out about it when Vera and Claudio, having gone to the office to wait for him, end up in the hands of Conforti. The boy, in a delirium of revenge, takes the child with him and later telephones the inspector asking him to pick him up where and when he knows. Initially Mariani does not understand the message; then, reconstructing the arrest of Sergio's father, he ends up remembering. He is forced to evade the surveillance of Crivelli and, arriving near a railway yard, is forced to face Sergio: he will be able to neutralize him and, even if wounded, to save his son.

Cast

Maurizio Merli Maurizio Merli (February 8, 1940 – March 10, 1989) was an Italian film actor and a star of many Italian police thrillers. Career After a decade of minor film roles, 1974 saw a breakthrough for Merli with his first starring role in a rema ...

as Commissioner Mauro Mariani * Janet Agren as Vera Mariani *

Ettore Manni Ettore Manni (6 May 1927 – 27 July 1979) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1952 and 1979. Life and career Born in Rome, Manni debuted as an actor in 1952, when in spite of his acting inexperience he wa ...

as Sergeant Ingravallo *

Chris Avram Chris Avram (born Cristea Avram; August 31, 1931 – January 10, 1989) was a Romanian- Italian film actor. Early life and career Avram was born in Bucharest, into a family of active communists (his father being a member of the Romanian Communist ...

as Commissioner Capo Crivelli *

Mariangela Giordano Mariangela Giordano (2 September 1937 – 16 July 2011) was an Italian film and television actress. Life and career Born in Dolcedo, Imperia, Italy as Maria Angela Giordano, the daughter of a journalist, Giordano was elected Miss Liguria in 19 ...

as Mrs. Parolini *

Enzo Fiermonte Enzo Fiermonte (17 July 1908 – 22 March 1993), sometimes credited as William Bird, was an Italian actor and boxer. Early life Vincenzo "Enzo" Fiermonte was born on 17 July 1908 in Casamassima, a rural village near Bari, in southern Italy to Do ...

as The Engineer *

Elisa Mainardi Elisa Mainardi (27 July 1930 – 8 May 2016) was an Italian stage, film, and television actress. Life and career Born in Rome, Mainardi studied at the acting school of Peter Sharoff, and debuted on stage in 1956, in Ottavio Spadaro's ''Corruzi ...

as Concierge

Production

later described the film as "a movie made out of nothing" and that the director Stelvio Massi was not happy with the results. Merli stated that half way through production the producers went on set and said there was no money left and they had to complete production quickly.

Release

''Il comissario di ferro'' was distributed theatrically in Italy by Belma on 7 December 1978. The film grossed a total of 847,768,660

Italian lire The lira (; plural lire) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. It was first introduced by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1807 at par with the French franc, and was subsequently adopted by the different states that would eventually f ...

. Unlike Massi's other film of the period, the film was never dubbed into English for foreign markets.

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1978 films Poliziotteschi films Films directed by Stelvio Massi Films scored by Lallo Gori 1970s Italian-language films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-film-stub