| Free Hand for a Tough Cop | |
| Director: | Umberto Lenzi |
| Starring: | Tomas Milian Claudio Cassinelli Henry Silva |
| Music: | Bruno Canfora |
| Cinematography: | Luigi Kuveiller |
| Editing: | Eugenio Alabiso |
| Producer: | Claudio Mancini Ugo Tucci |
| Distributor: | Variety Distribution |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
| Gross: | ₤509,747 million |
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (it|'''Il trucido e lo sbirro''' / '''The Numbskull and the Cop'''), also known as Tough Cop, is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi and the second entry into the Tanzi/Moretto/Monnezza shared universe.[1] 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).[2] [3]
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.