Aug 22, 2026 · 59 min · 11 segments
Ciao boys! Marten's Eurocinema education continues, as fellas dive into the Italian underworld once again, exploring the trashy crime team ups between Umberto Lenzi and Tomas Milian. Scotch, machine…
The difficult thing for me watching these is they really do kind of run together.
We even had that with Nero, but I will say the Nero set, the Castellari films, were much more differentiated.
There still was some kind of haziness, but a few of these, especially the Cynic...
And so it's and it's just like, but you have all the elements you expect of a movie like that.
So you have the you said the fascist cop who's like going to do anything they have to do.
You have usually the psychopathic criminal, usually some kind of kidnapping plot, multiple levels of of like people fucking each other over, usually machine guns at some point in a gunfight car chase, I think in every single one.
Those little Italian cars, flipping them over and blowing them shits up, he was great at that.
The difficult thing for me watching these is they really do kind of run together.
We even had that with Nero, but I will say the Nero set, the Castellari films, were much more differentiated.
There still was some kind of haziness, but a few of these, especially the Cynic...
And so it's and it's just like, but you have all the elements you expect of a movie like that.
So you have the you said the fascist cop who's like going to do anything they have to do.
You have usually the psychopathic criminal, usually some kind of kidnapping plot, multiple levels of of like people fucking each other over, usually machine guns at some point in a gunfight car chase, I think in every single one.
Those little Italian cars, flipping them over and blowing them shits up, he was great at that.
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