When a powerful gang of extortionists forces the businessmen of an Italian city to pay for their protection, the tough Inspector Nico Palmieri investigates the case. However he is surprised by the racketeers and ends up seriously injured. When he is discharged from the hospital, he joins the victims of the extortion who are trying to find a witness to testify in court as the mobsters are always released by the Attorney Giovanni Giuni. Only the restaurant owner, Luigi Giulti, accepts this burden; but his daughter is brutally raped by the gangsters and commits suicide later. Nico is pressed by his superiors to drop the case but he invites his friend, Pepe, to help him using illegal methods - believing that the end justifies the means. There is a war between the criminals and the police with tragic consequences, and Nico is fired from the police department. Nico decides to join Luigi; Pepe; a marksman that saw his wife being raped and burned alive; the owner of a nightclub maimed for the rest of his life; and a felon that wants a passport and destroy the gang - in a battle that becomes bloodshed between vigilantes and criminals.
Movie Tagline:
Someone's gonna pay...
Also Known As:
The Big Racket
Title: Il Grande Racket
Release Date: June 19, 1981
Runtime: 104 mins
Genre: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Horror
Languages: Italian
Country: Italy
Colors: Color
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 7.5
Brimstone Pit Rating: 8.5 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With I
MPAA Rating: 18
Director(s):
Enzo G. Castellari
Cast:
Fabio Testi ...Inspector Nico Palmieri
Vincent Gardenia ...Pepe
Renzo Palmer ...Luigi Giulti, restaurant owner
Orso Maria Guerrini ...Gianni Rossetti
Glauco Onorato ...Piero Mazzarelli
Marcella Michelangeli ...Marcy
Romano Puppo ...Doringo
Antonio Marsina ...Attorney Giovanni Giuni
Salvatore Borghese ...Sgt. Salvatore Velasci (as Salvatore Borgese)
Joshua Sinclair ...Rudy - il Marsegliese (as Gianluigi Loffredo)
Daniele Dublino ...Commissioner
Anna Zinnemann ...Anna Rossetti (as Anna Bellini)
Edy Biagetti ...Chief of Police
Salvatore Billa ...Fabrizi
Giovanni Bonadonna ...Cuomo
Franco Borelli ...Oreste Sacla
Pietro Ceccarelli ...Luigi Mayer
Domenico Cianfriglia ...Rudy henchman
Giovanni Cianfriglia ...The Ox
Roberto Dell'Acqua ...Luigino
Ruggero Diella ...Piccio, Pepe's Nephew
Dino Mattielli ...Prison Guard
Carmelo Reale ...Vraspar - International Fence
Angelo Ragusa ...Giancarlo, The Badger
Massimo Vanni ...Vanni
Franco Ukmar ...Thug at Fabrizi Plant
Angelo Boscariol ...Spectator at Station
Omero Capanna ...Rudy Henchman
Enzo G. Castellari ...Cowardly Storekeeper
Nestore Cavaricci ...Spectator at Station
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Producer(s):
Galliano Juso
Writer(s):
Enzo G. Castellari
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Composer(s):
Guido De Angelis
Maurizio De Angelis
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Movie Quote(s):
- Luigino: [gesturing with a doll he is holding to the storekeeper] Is this the kind that makes water? Storekeeper: Yes, everything, it's the latest model from Japan. Luigino: One of these days they'll make one that bleeds real blood... when you cut its throat!
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Keywords:
Police, Death Of Daughter, Rape, Grindhouse ...[more]
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Rating: 8.5 out of 10.0 - 55 votes cast total
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