Rent High Crime (1973)
3.6 of 5 from 52 ratings
1h 30min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
Vice-Commissioner Belli (Franco Nero) is investigating a series of crimes committed by a drug-running gang in Genoa. He approaches the apparently reformed old-fashioned gangster Cafiero (Fernando Rey) for information on the new gang in tl town, not knowing that Cafiero plans to take care of them himself. Belli's boss, Commissioner Aldo Scavino (James Whitmore), takes a dossier to the DA on the possible Mafia connections of the gang but is intercepted and the dossier stolen. Belli is forced to step up as the Commissioner and must fight to defend his family from threats by the criminals, before learning of a deal in Marseilles where he may have a chance to take down the underworld organisation once and for all. - Actors:
- Franco Nero, Fernando Rey, James Whitmore, Delia Boccardo, Duilio Del Prete, Silvano Tranquilli, Luigi Diberti, Mario Erpichini, Stefania Girolami Goodwin, Ely Galleani, Bruno Corazzari, Daniel Martín, Joaquín Solís, Edy Biagetti, Massimo Vanni, Paolo Giusti, Zoe Incrocci, Carla Mancini, Lorenzo Piani, Enzo G. Castellari
- Directors:
- Enzo G. Castellari
- Producers:
- Edmondo Amati
- Writers:
- Maurizio Amati, Tito Carpi, Gianfranco Clerici, Enzo G. Castellari, Leonardo Martín, Gene Luotto, Vincenzo Mannino
- Aka:
- La polizia incrimina la legge assolve
- Studio:
- StudioCanal
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
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- Countries:
- Italy
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 06/06/2022
- Run Time:
- 93 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono, Italian LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New - A Criminal Conversation - Enzo G. Castellari Remembers 'High Crime'
- New - The Scene of the Crime - An Interview with Roberto Girometti
- New - High and Dry - The Stuntwork of Massimo Vanni
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Powerful - High Crime review by sb
FILM & REVIEW Another cracking Italian cop thriller has Nero as Bello a highly strung Genoa policeman in the trail of a major drug shipment. After a lengthy car chase he arrests the Lebanese middle man only to have him and several policemen blown up by a pre-planted bomb. His boss reveals he has a file on several leading industrialists and politicians who all seem mixed up in this. He also contacts an elderly seemingly retired drug dealer (Fernando Ray) who agrees that someone is muscling in on the operation but even he doesn’t realise just how close to home ths has become. Soon we are up to our necks in betrayals, double crosses and full on violence. Bello is warned that there are no civilians in this and learns to his cost just how true this is. It obviously owes a huge debt to the French Connection with Ray reprising his role although in much more ambiguous way. Nero who normally plays cool laconic characters but here he shouts a lot and waves his arms around as he sees events running out of control. The copy I saw ends rather abruptly and looking it up there is supposed to be a huge shootout on the docks which seems missing …it just cuts to Nero looking pensive - must see if there are other versions - 4/5
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