Aside from the bathtub electrocution and prison fight scenes, this one plays it mostly for laffs. Lee Van Cleef is a seasoned assassin, who is idolized by a naive, small-time crook. We'll call this young man Honda, because that is what his t-shirt said while he was in prison (I guess they let you keep your duds in poliziotteschi prison). Anywhat, the guys escape and Van Cleef spends the rest of the film tracking down those jerks that double crossed him, ending up in a fish-processing plant in Marseilles. This one wins for costume design, but the poignant trumpet track gets a bit annoying after a while. There's about a half-dozen alternate titles, but I think my favourite might be Mean Frank and Crazy Tony!
Prisoner #439527 in the mesh shirt is SO not impressed. Prisoner #95847 looks like he escaped from mime school.
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