Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (), also known as "Tough Cop", is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi a.k.a. "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's "Brothers Till We Die" (1978, a sort of sequel of this movie), in "Destruction Force" by Stelvio Massi (1977) and, with slight differences, in "Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici" by Bruno Corbucci (1980) and in Francesco Massaro's "Il lupo e l'agnello" (1980). Plot . Camilla is a little girl suffering with a kidney disorder. Before she can receive her next due treatment she gets kidnapped. The gangsters intend to blackmail her rich father. Commissario Antonio Sarti knows that time is running out on the victim and takes desperate measures. He secretly organises a prison escape for petty crook Sergio Marazzi. By using Marazzi's insider knowledge of the criminal milieu Sarti detects kidnapper's hideout.