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Salut les pourris

Original title: Il poliziotto è marcio
  • 1974
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 34m
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6.6/10
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Salut les pourris (1974)
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A police lieutenant suddenly faces the consequences of his choice to part for the local mobs.A police lieutenant suddenly faces the consequences of his choice to part for the local mobs.A police lieutenant suddenly faces the consequences of his choice to part for the local mobs.

  • Director
    • Fernando Di Leo
  • Writers
    • Fernando Di Leo
    • Sergio Donati
  • Stars
    • Luc Merenda
    • Richard Conte
    • Delia Boccardo
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
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    • Director
      • Fernando Di Leo
    • Writers
      • Fernando Di Leo
      • Sergio Donati
    • Stars
      • Luc Merenda
      • Richard Conte
      • Delia Boccardo
    • 13User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
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    Luc Merenda
    Luc Merenda
    • Police Commissioner Domenico Malacarne
    Richard Conte
    Richard Conte
    • Dr. Nazzari
    Delia Boccardo
    Delia Boccardo
    • Sandra
    Raymond Pellegrin
    Raymond Pellegrin
    • Pascal
    Gianni Santuccio
    • Superintendent
    Vittorio Caprioli
    Vittorio Caprioli
    • Esposito
    Salvo Randone
    Salvo Randone
    • Marshal Malacarne
    Rosario Borelli
    • Detective Pietro Garrito
    Monica Monet
    • Barbara
    Elio Zamuto
    • Rio
    Gino Milli
    • Gianmaria
    Sergio Ammirata
    • Vice Commissioner Curcetti
    Massimo Sarchielli
    Massimo Sarchielli
    • Rabal
    Loris Bazzocchi
    • Killer
    Salvatore Billa
    Salvatore Billa
    • Detective Rizzo
    Marcello Di Falco
    • Killer
    Attilio Duse
    • Detective Aniello
    Luigi Antonio Guerra
    • Young Detective
    • Director
      • Fernando Di Leo
    • Writers
      • Fernando Di Leo
      • Sergio Donati
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    7radiobirdma

    Papa's Got a Brand New Body Bag

    Though generally a tad overrated (neither Milano Calibro 9 nor Il Boss are the transgressive "masterpieces" some Italocinema fetishists want them to be), so-called "cult" director Fernando di Leo manages to strike some grippingly dissonant chords in Shoot First, Die Later, the original title being less sensationalistic than bone dry: The Rotten Cop. While most poliziotteschi are essentially feelgood movies, the degenerates and lowlifes getting what they justly deserve, this one marches to an entirely different drum. At its core a father-son story – the excellent Salvo Randone playing Pops to the opposite of leading beau Luc Merenda –, it's a cynical morality play about a model cop appropriately named Malacarne (literally meaning "bad meat") who feels perfectly comfortable with being on the payroll of the mafia until things go terribly awry: Unlike the cheap-thrills roller coaster violence of other Eurocrime movies, the stark brutality here comes across as callous, pitiless, not even nasty, but unpleasant through and through; actually, the two car chases, skillfully done by stunt coordinator Rémy Julienne, feel like a concession to the regular poliziotto crowd. In its acidly sarcastic Weltanschauung and the complete lack of redeeming qualities, Shoot First, Die Later is doubtless more akin to the cinema of Rosi, Damiani or Elio Petri than to the staccato over-the-top action of Castellari or Lenzi: A doom loop of human failings.
    6Bezenby

    Crime only pays what you're worth

    This one stars Luc Merenda as a hard-nosed cop famed for taking down the bad guys in Milan, as we see during a pretty good shoot-out/car chase at the beginning of the film. Luc's also got a good thing going with his girlfriend, but we soon get to find out why he can afford to buy her such expensive things...

    Luc's a corrupt cop and is working for two mobsters who are paying Luc to turn a blind eye to all the tobacco and booze smuggling in the city. He kind of loses the rag a bit when their latest venture turns out to be gun running, but an increase in the old bribes softens that blow a little. There's a tiny bit of a problem, however. A nosy neighbour type has reported the registrations of two cars in his area that the mob would rather the police forget about, but to Luc this means going to that particular police station, which, unfortunately for him, is run by his own father. At the same time a body turns up in a steel drum and Luc now has to sort all this out before the mafia lose their already thin patience.

    What makes this one a bit different from the rough cop socking people in the jaw is that Luc is basically struggling to cover up his initial mistake of having trusted the mob in the first place, and becomes a victim of his own over-confidence. There's a greater emotional depth here too as Luc's relationships with his girlfriend and father become strained as his shady dealings rise to the fore. Those looking for the brutal violence of De Leo's other films won't be disappointed either, as many characters here are outright violently murdered rather than having shootouts with each other. These films usually work better with the brutality turned up to ten anyway, although the bit with the kitten wasn't called for. As usual. This trend would get much, much worse!

    I can't decide if Luc Merenda is a good actor or not because he just kind of glares at everything.
    5jordondave-28085

    I did not like the way it ended

    (1976) Il Poliziotto è marcio/ Shoot First, Die Later (In Italian with English subtitles) CRIME DRAMA/ ACTION

    Interesting familiar premise but with expected results starring Luc Merenda as Domenico Malacarne a young corrupt police lieutenant who always had no problems working with a particular don for illegal booze and cigarettes, until some elder bystander files a complaint regarding being blocked from the inside from getting out. For cautionary reasons the mob is pressing Domenco to go to the police station where the file is located and then retrieve it for the mob so that he can have it destroyed since it contains the license plate number that can connect a particular person with a current murder that happened nearby. Written and directed by Fernando Di Leo has some interesting things to say regarding the problems that can exist regarding corruption that involves the law of authority, which can be used as a scare tactic not to do business with the mob under any circumstances, that I have no doubt in my mind some of it is based on fact. I just wished there was a better result I guess would've made the film unrealistic.
    7adrianovasconcelos

    Intense police thriller - why disappoint your cop father?

    Fernando di Leo does a sound job of cranking out a film that keeps you riveted to your seat, even if you (well, I) could not quite see Domenico's (played by Luc Merenda) motivation for accepting bribes from the underworld while serving as a policeman and with his father a well known and respected senior officer in the force.

    Whatever the unexplained reasons, Domenico sees no reason not to profit from his personal power as officer of the law, and he has a quick trigger index finger that dispatches lives as fast as he drives recklessly through the streets of the crime-ridden city in which he tangoes with criminal figures, notably the venerable Richard Conte, who already showed all the signs of a penchant for crime back in his heyday as Hollywood star, culminating in Barzini, the top baddie in THE GODFATHER.

    If you like action Italian/polizioteschi style of the 1970s, IL POLIZIOTTTO É MARCIO is a must-see. Typical cinematography of the time, undemanding editing and script. If you like something convincing in terms of character actions, you may feel a little bit let down. 7/10.
    8Coventry

    "Bad Meat" is Rotten!

    Umberto Lenzi was the Italian director responsible for delivering the – hands down – most exhilarating, gratuitously violent and smuttiest Poliziotesschi thrillers of the 1970s, but his colleague Fernando Di Leo was the genius who arguably made the ones with the best screenplays, most unsettling atmospheres and most intriguingly profound character drawings. Evidence for this opinion/statement can be found in his vastly superior crime trilogy (containing the masterworks "Milano Calibro 9", "La Mala Ordina" and "Il Boss") but further proof also comes from this truly overpowering "Il Poliziotto è Marcio" aka "Shoot First, Die Later". Di Leo's films are slightly more qualitative and memorable because he thinks outside of the box and continuously adds new elements to the successful Poliziotesschi formula that he co-created himself. Lenzi's films, for example, are mostly straightforward thrillers in which one unbreakable super-cop (usually Maurizio Merli) battles against entire crime networks but also against the corrupt political system. Domenico Malacarne, the protagonist here, is an utterly corrupt detective himself! The original Italian title is therefore a lot more meaningful as the popular international title; as it literally translates as "The Cop is Rotten" and even the anti- hero's last name (meaning "bad meat") gives a good indication of the story content.

    Malacarna is the most successful lieutenant of his Milanese precinct and often gets applauded by his superiors as well as in the local press for uncovering minor drug-trafficking rings and arresting small time crooks. His dark secret, however, is that he simultaneously works as informant for the local mafia boss Pascal and his nefarious attorney Mazzanti. When the mafia starts demanding favors that are even for Malacarna too immoral, his whole empire falls apart and his loved ones become endangered. It may sound unusual, perhaps, but the strongest moments in "Shoot First, Die Later" are the dramatic and emotional scenes rather than the violent ones. Notably the sequences where Malacarne's proud and deep-honest father discovers the truth and gets confronted with the true nature of his beloved son are intense and genuinely painful to observe. Of course, Di Leo never forgets that he's busy making an unhinged Poliziotesschi and thus the film is luckily also full action and brutality, including two virulent car chases, shocking annihilations and senseless cruelty (poor kitten!). Luc Merenda ("The Violent Professionals", "Kidnap Syndicate") is sublime as the simultaneously loathsome and charming anti-hero, and he receives good support from the entire ensemble cast. The intelligent script, in combination with Di Leo's craftsmanship and the smooth soundtrack (Luis Bacalov) make this a top-10/must-see Poliziotesschi.

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    • Trivia
      The two iconic car chase scenes in the film reportedly took up half the film's budget.
    • Quotes

      Police Commissioner Domenico Malacarne: Well, if it isn't Gianmaria in his Chinese dressing gown: Gianni in front and Maria in the behind.

      Gianmaria: Which side do you want to try first?

      Police Commissioner Domenico Malacarne: [walks past him to the group of men assembled] What a fine crowd! Bunch of studs, but where are the ladies? Or will Gianmaria do the honors for all of us? ... Listen, if you want to keep this fag as a personal pet, fine, but he disgusts me, understood? And I don't want him calling me at headquarters. Is that clear?

    • Alternate versions
      Compulsory cuts in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy on animal cruelty were required to release the film in the UK. Removed was a sequence in which a live cat is placed inside a plastic bag, which is then sealed, with subsequent sight of the live cat struggling inside the bag.
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    • Release date
      • May 24, 1978 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • France
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Shoot First, Die Later
    • Filming locations
      • Milano, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Cinemaster S.r.l.
      • Mara Films
      • Mount Street Film
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 34 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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