Hot Stuff (1976) aka Fear in the City DVD-R

Starring Maurizio Merli, James Mason, Raymond Pellegrin, Silvia Dionisio, Fausto Tozzi
Directed by Giuseppe Rosati
Print: Color
Runtime: 90 min
Genre: Drama
Language: Italian with English subtitles

The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don’t like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal’s nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don’t take too kindly to the cop’s way of working.