The Big Racket

Enzo Castellari's best crime film, and the one with the shot everyone remembers: a cop trapped in his car as thugs roll it down a hillside, the camera bolted inside with him. A protection racket terrorises small shopkeepers until the victims and one disgraced cop take matters into their own hands.

It edges into vigilante territory and stages its action with more visual ambition than the genre usually managed. Castellari clearly studied Peckinpah and the results show in the slow-motion carnage.

One of the best-directed films in the cycle.