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Syndicate Sadists

Syndicate Sadists is a 1975 movie directed by Umberto Lenzi.

WHAT HAPPENS?

A biker vows revenge on two rival crime families after his brother is murdered while investigating a kidnapping.

ONE LINE REVIEW

Tomas Milian shines in an essential 70’s Euro Crime classic.

THE ACTORS

Syndicate Sadists is Tomas Milian’s show. His Rambo character is a drifter that possesses an impeccable cool and Serpico-esque, 70’s style. His wit and wiry, physical prowess foreshadows a more natural version of the amped-up action heroes that would soon follow. Milian’s easy delivery and natural comic style carries the movie.

The Tough Ones

The Tough Ones is a 1976 movie directed by Umberto Lenzi.

The Tough Ones, aka Roma a Mano Armata tells the story of Inspector Tanzi, a detective disillusioned with a legal system that is exploited by criminals. He pursues various members of a crime syndicate to exact justice.

Lenzi delivers a quintessential Poliziotteschi movie. Maurizio Merli plays the hard-boiled detective fed up with the system. Giampiero Albertini is Caputo, the loyal partner who meets a tragic fate. Arthur Kennedy is the crusty, bureaucratic Commissioner trying to reign in his maverick employee.

The Tough Ones is standard fare for the genre – but when the qualifications are erratic car chases, violent shootouts, killer clothes and endless sermons lifted from Dirty Harry, the movie delivers on all accounts.

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