Original
Italian Title: LA BELVA COL MITRA
Also Known As: FEROCIOUS, STREET KILLERS, HUMAN BEAST, MAD DOG
and MAD DOG KILLER
director: Sergio Grieco
starring: Helmust Berger · Marisa Mell · Richard Harrison
· Marina Giordana · Luigi Bonos · Vittorio Duse
Sadistic
Mafia kingpin Nanni Vitali escapes from prison with three other homicidal
gangsters. They hope to get out of the country to freedom across the
border but first they plan vengeance against everybody who testified
against them during their trial. The four hoodlums embark on a savage
nonstop spree of rape, murder and robbery. A persistent police inspector
named Giulio Santini is on their tail, desperately trying to put an
end to their bloodlust. He manages to get closer when Vitali takes time
to abduct, rape and terrorize an innocent young woman who happened to
be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Sergio
Grieco could best be described as a workman director, helming 25+ B-projects
between 1950-63. These were interchangeable action films and peplums,
designed to occupy the second half of a double bill. Then between 1964-73,
Sergio hit his stride, (under the alias Terence Hathaway) he became
Italy's sought-after director of Spy Movies (best known for 007
MISSION BLOODY MARY). From that Bondish genre, he moved to hard-edged
crime films in the mid '70s with this film proving to be his most memorable
(and his last). Wedged between the Spy films and Crime Noir came the
odd SINFUL
NUNS OF SAINT VALENTINE in 1974. Mr Grieco died from a heart
attack in March 1982 at 65.
An Italian film
in English language; fullscreen format (4:3), uncut (91 minutes), DVD
encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT. Extras include trailers.
Sexual Themes/Violence/Nudity/Drugs/Sexual
Brutality/Rape
for Mature Audiences only
