Highway Racer | |
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Directed by | Stelvio Massi |
Screenplay by | Gino Capone |
Story by | Gino Capone[1] |
Produced by | Giovanni Di Clemente[1] |
Starring | Maurizio Merli |
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Edited by | Mauro Bonanni[1] |
Music by | Stelvio Cipriani[1] |
Production company | Cleminternazionale Cinematografica[1] |
Distributed by | Titanus |
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Running time | 105 minutes[1] |
Country | Italy[1] |
Box office | ₤1.308 billion |
Highway Racer (originally titled Poliziotto sprint) is a 1977 Italian poliziottesco film directed by Stelvio Massi.[2][3] It was the first collaboration between Massi and Maurizio Merli, who worked together in six titles between 1977 and 1980.
The plot of the film was partly inspired by the career of Armando Spatafora, an Italian "flying squad" police officer whose patrol car was a Ferrari 250 GTE. Many car chases in the film, such as bank robbers in a Citroen DS as well as cars rolling down the Spanish steps, mirror famous police chases in Rome during the 1960s.