Free Hand for a Tough Cop

Free Hand for a Tough Cop (Italian: Il trucido e lo sbirro / The Numbskull and the Cop), also known as Tough Cop, is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi a.k.a. "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's Brothers Till We Die (1978, a sort of sequel of this movie), in Destruction Force by Stelvio Massi (1977) and, with slight differences, in Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici by Bruno Corbucci (1980) and in Francesco Massaro's Il lupo e l'agnello (1980).

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• Plot
• Cast
• References

Plot

Camilla is a little girl suffering with a kidney disorder. Before she can receive her next due treatment she gets kidnapped. The gangsters intend to blackmail her rich father. Commissario Antonio Sarti knows that time is running out on the victim and takes desperate measures. He secretly organises a prison escape for petty crook Sergio Marazzi. By using Marazzi's insider knowledge of the criminal milieu Sarti detects kidnapper's hideout.

Cast

Tomas Milian as Sergio Marazzi a.k.a. "Er Monnezza"

Claudio Cassinelli as Commissioner Antonio Sarti

Henry Silva as Brescianelli

Nicoletta Machiavelli as Mara

Robert Hundar as Mario “The Cynic”

Biagio Pelligra as Calabrese

Giuseppe Castellano as Vallelunga

Ernesto Colli as Roscetto

Tano Cimarosa as Cravatta

Dana Ghia as Clara Finzi

Renato Mori as Commissioner Franchini

Antonio Casale as Pasquale Tomati “Er Greve”

Massimo Bonetti as Pickpocket

Luciano Rossi as Dealer

Umberto Raho as Lawyer

Sara Franchetti as Moretti’s cleaning lady

Arturo Dominici as De Rita

Giovanni Cianfriglia as Camini