Execution Squad

Execution Squad

Directed by	Steno
Produced by	Primex Italiana
Starring	Enrico Maria Salerno
Music by	Stelvio Cipriani
Cinematography	Riccardo Pallottini
Edited by	Roberto Perpignani
Release dates	1972
Running time	99 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

La polizia ringrazia (internationally released as Execution Squad and The Enforcers) is a 1972 Italian crime film directed by Steno and starring Enrico Maria Salerno. Set during Italy's tumultuous anni di piombo ("Years of Lead"), the film obtained a great commercial success, and it is considered as the initiator of the "poliziottesco" film genre.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cast

Enrico Maria Salerno as Commissioner Bertone
Mariangela Melato as Sandra
Franco Fabrizi as : Francesco Bettarini
Cyril Cusack as Former Superintendent Stolfi
Mario Adorf as Deputy Prosecutor Ricciuti
Laura Belli as Anna Maria Sprovieri
Jürgen Drews as Michele Settecamini
Corrado Gaipa as Lawyer Armani

References

↑ Roberto Curti. Italia odia: il cinema poliziesco italiano. Lindau, 2006. pp. 103–108.
↑ Ernest Mathijs, Xavier Mendik. Alternative Europe. Wallflower Press, 2004. p. 80.
↑ Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese Editore, 1991. p. 7.

External links

Execution Squad at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Steno

A Night of Fame (1949)
A Dog's Life (1950)
È arrivato il cavaliere! (1950)
Cops and Robbers (1951)
Toto and the King of Rome (1952)
Toto and the Women (1952)
Totò a colori (1952)
The Unfaithfuls (1953)
Man, Beast and Virtue (1953)
Cinema d'altri tempi (1953)
Un giorno in pretura (1953)
Un americano a Roma (1954)
Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova (1954)
The Letters Page (1955)
Nero's Weekend (1956)
Femmine tre volte (1957)
Susanna Whipped Cream (1957)
Maid, Thief and Guard (1958)
Mia nonna poliziotto (1958)
Toto in the Moon (1958)
Toto in Madrid (1959)
The Overtaxed (1959)
Uncle Was a Vampire (1959)
Un militare e mezzo (1960)
Letto a tre piazze (1960)
Some Like It Cold (1960)
Psycosissimo (1961)
Musketeers of the Sea (1961)
La ragazza di mille mesi (1961)
The Two Colonels (1962)
Totò Diabolicus (1962)
Copacabana Palace (1962)
Toto vs. the Four (1963)
Heroes of the West (1964)
I gemelli del Texas (1964)
A Monster and a Half (1964)
Letti sbagliati (1965)
Rose rosse per Angelica (1965)
Love Italian Style (1966)
The Crazy Kids of the War (1967)
How to Kill 400 Duponts (1967)
Caprice Italian Style (1967)
Il trapianto (1969)
Gang War (1971)
The Blonde in the Blue Movie (1971)
Execution Squad (1971)
Il terrore con gli occhi storti (1972)
L'uccello migratore (1972)
My Brother Anastasia (1973)
Flatfoot (1973)
Policewoman (1974)
Flatfoot in Hong Kong (1974)
The Boss and the Worker (1975)
Febbre da cavallo (1976)
L'Italia s'è rotta (1976)
Three Tigers Against Three Tigers (1977)
Double Murder (1977)
Flatfoot in Africa (1978)
Amori miei (1978)
Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot (1979)
La patata bollente (1979)
Flatfoot in Egypt (1980)
Fico d'India (1980)
Quando la coppia scoppia (1981)
Il tango della gelosia (1981)
Dio li fa e poi li accoppia (1982)
Banana Joe (1982)
Sballato, gasato, completamente fuso (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style (1982)
Mani di fata (1983)
Mi faccia causa (1984)
Animali metropolitani (1987)
Big Man (1987)

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