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Director
  
Peter Zinner

Duration
  

Initial DVD release
  
June 29, 2004 (USA)

Language
  
English

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Thriller

Running time
  
1h 43m

Music director
  
Jerry Goldsmith

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Release date
  
April 25, 1981 (1981-04-25) (UK)May 23, 1983 (1983-05-23) (U.S.)

Writer
  
Robert Katz (screenplay), Rod Serling (adaptation), Morris L. West (novel)

Initial release
  
April 25, 1981 (United Kingdom)

Cast
  
Franco Nero
(Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci),
Anthony Quinn
(Bruno Manzini),
Martin Balsam
(Captain Steffanelli),
Claudia Cardinale
(Elena Leporello),
Sybil Danning
(Lili Anders),
Christopher Lee
(Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence)

Similar movies
  
Franco Nero and Martin Balsam appear in The Salamander and Confessions of a Police Captain

The salamander 1981


The Salamander (also known as Morris West's The Salamander) is a 1981 thriller film directed by Peter Zinner, at his directorial debut. The film is based on a novel with the same name by Morris West.

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Policeman Dante Matucci investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. As the body count grows he sees a pattern that might point to a conspiracy to take over the Italian government.

Cast


  • Franco Nero: Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci
  • Anthony Quinn: Bruno Manzini
  • Martin Balsam: Captain Steffanelli
  • Sybil Danning: Lili Anders
  • Christopher Lee: Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
  • Cleavon Little: Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
  • Paul L. Smith: The Surgeon
  • John Steiner: Captain Roditi
  • Claudia Cardinale: Elena Leporello
  • Eli Wallach: General Leporello
  • Renzo Palmer: Carabinieri Major Giorgione
  • Anita Strindberg: Princess Faubiani
  • Marino Masé: Captain Rigoli
  • Jacques Herlin: Woodpecker
  • Fortunato Arena: General Pantaleone
  • John Stacy: Concierge
  • Gitte Lee: Princess Baldasar
  • Nello Pazzafini: Manzini's Bodyguard

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