Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?

Apr 15, 1972

1h 25m

★ 6.3

Overview

Carlo, a young photographer, is making love with his girlfriend at the beach when he witnesses a murder being feebly staged to look like a car accident. Carlo takes incriminating shots of the murderers (the victim turns out to be the local public prosecutor) and attempts to sell them to various interested parties, including a gangster and a newspaper owner. One of the murderers' accomplices, a lowlife criminal, is gunned down by a black-gloved assassin, while another is stabbed to death...

Genres

Thriller

Production Companies

Castor Films

Ital-Victoria Films

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Cast

Carlo

Lou Castel

Olga

Beba Lončar

Inspector Vezzi

Adolfo Celi

Uncle Fifi

Massimo Serato

Romano, Don Salvatore's lawyer

Umberto D'Orsi

Marshal Notarantonio

Renato Baldini

Superintendent Portella

Consalvo Dell'Arti

Mauri

Antonio La Raina

Roversi

Carlo Landa

Nightclub Employee

Carla Mancini

Vicenzino Rocca

Renato Malavasi

Don Salvatore Aniello

Fortunato Arena

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6.5

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6.7

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6.6

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5.8

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7.2

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6.0

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5.4

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6.3

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0.0

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5.1

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6.7

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5.8

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5.3

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5.4

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6.2

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6.4

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5.9

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