cult film freak: stelvio massi

Written by James M. Tate / 1/02/2024 / No comments / action , cop , giancarlo sbragia , italian , maurizio merli , race car , seventies , stelvio cipriani , stelvio massi

ITALIAN ACTION CRIME 'HIGHWAY RACER' AKA 'POLIZIOTTO SPRINT'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGRBSOLnvls6Cr_P7mNWGTg9n4zd0ziEGxsPm52Hqn03upHUg7bp7uz534IWq9xbn8UcmfkOKuiHWPkmvbEui8ZuFVAl9XkaMUtKmmpOLq8zUQjCHV819Vr3vcPd5k9xx4isHDvLVy0udY71NsItzZDErjfIDTWRVDP5Vz8P-wGsSTlkX1D9jwXvYnUHRZ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-18%20at%203.57.47%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGRBSOLnvls6Cr_P7mNWGTg9n4zd0ziEGxsPm52Hqn03upHUg7bp7uz534IWq9xbn8UcmfkOKuiHWPkmvbEui8ZuFVAl9XkaMUtKmmpOLq8zUQjCHV819Vr3vcPd5k9xx4isHDvLVy0udY71NsItzZDErjfIDTWRVDP5Vz8P-wGsSTlkX1D9jwXvYnUHRZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-18%20at%203.57.47%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maurizio Merli in HIGHWAY RACER Year: 1977 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>Stelvio Massi's Italian action-crime-flick HIGHWAY RACER is built around the premise of a cop who'd rather be (and drives like) an extremely fast yet far too risky race car driver, beginning like a sequel that had already properly introduced the argumentative relationship between titular cop Maurizio Merli and middle-age has-been captain Giancarlo Sbragia...The latter had once been a speed-demon cop on his own (the best sequence is his own Spanish Steps flashback), but now he spends time butting heads with until inevitably mentoring Merli's Marco Palma after his comic-relief "I'm too old for this" shotgun-riding partner's killed during the fastest of several already dangerous chases...

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ITALIAN ACTION CRIME 'HIGHWAY RACER' AKA 'POLIZIOTTO SPRINT'

Maurizio Merli in HIGHWAY RACER Year: 1977 Rating: *** Stelvio Massi's Italian action-crime-flick HIGHWAY RACER is built around the prem...

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