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Napoli si ribella (1977)

90 min · Crime

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Directors

Michele Massimo Tarantini

Cast

Luc Merenda, Enzo Cannavale, Sonia Viviani, Claudio Gora

A tough, controversial police commissioner transferred to Naples finds a bank-theft investigation putting him up against a powerful Camorra boss.

The story

Police Commissioner Dario Mauri, whose methods are tough and often controversial, is transferred from Milan to Naples, where he investigates a theft at a bank involving safe-deposit boxes. Marshal Nicola Capece assists him. At first, Mauri considers the case a trivial matter of jewelry; the investigation instead puts him up against powerful Camorra boss Domenico Laurenzi, who is repeatedly and successfully defended by lawyer Cerullo.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Police Commissioner Dario Mauri, whose methods are tough and often controversial, is transferred from Milan to Naples, where he investigates a theft at a bank involving some safe-deposit boxes. Assisted in the investigation by Marshal Nicola Capece, he initially thinks the case is a trivial matter of jewelry. In reality, the commissioner finds himself up against a powerful Camorra boss, Domenico Laurenzi, who is repeatedly and successfully defended by lawyer Cerullo. Only after several murders and after they have risked their lives do Dario and Nicola discover that Laurenzi has been betrayed by his employee Bonino and his man Pasquale Donnaregina, known as Core 'e cane. They have stolen a large quantity of drugs from him, leaving him unable to fulfill commitments he had made to prominent international criminals.

Genres

Crime

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