The Italian Connection

Di Leo again, and the film with the best chase in Italian cinema. A small-time Milan pimp is framed and hunted by two American hitmen, and the centrepiece is Mario Adorf, on foot, running down a car and tearing it apart with his hands in a junkyard.

Adorf's performance is a force of nature, all sweat and desperation, and Di Leo grounds the violence in a real sense of class and dead ends. Henry Silva and Woody Strode play the imported killers.

Lean, furious, and built around one of the great physical performances in the genre.