Revolver
Revolver is a 1973 film from Italy, directed by Sergio Sollima, running 101 minutes. reelscum files it under poliziotteschi.
- Year
- 1973 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Director
- Sergio Sollima
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (39/100)
- Also known as
- Blood in the Streets · In the Name of Love
Defined in the glossary: Poliziotteschi
Di Leo's saddest. Oliver Reed, and a Morricone theme that hurts.
Di Leo's saddest film. A prison warden's wife is kidnapped and the ransom is the release of a particular inmate, forcing the warden and the prisoner into an uneasy partnership as the scheme unravels above both their heads. Oliver Reed and Fabio Testi play the mismatched pair.
It is more melancholy than most poliziotteschi, an ordinary man ground down by forces he cannot see, and Ennio Morricone's theme (later reused in Inglourious Basterds) aches over it. The ending offers no relief.
Di Leo's most despairing film, and one of his finest.
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Written about
- Poliziotteschi: the Italian cop film, 1973 to 1980
A moustache, a Magnum, and total contempt for the courts.
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Italian cops who close cases by ignoring the courts and the paperwork. Start at the top, before the moustaches blur together.
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Castellari's best. The car-rolling-down-the-hill shot is famous for a reason.
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Castellari's Death Wish. An ordinary engineer, brutalised and ignored, arms himself.
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Tomas Milian as a repellent psychopath. Deeply unpleasant, very good.
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Maurizio Merli punches Rome for 100 minutes. Politics: incoherent.
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Di Leo's dirty-cop picture, and the rot goes all the way home.
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Two cops who are clearly the villains. Ruggero Deodato, before the jungle.
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Di Leo's masterpiece. Cold, fast, well written.
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Merli takes his no-mercy cop routine to Naples. Fast, brutal, and politically incoherent as ever.
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Martino sends Luc Merenda undercover and off the leash. Prime cop-on-a-rampage stuff.