Almost Human (1974 film)
| Almost Human | |
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Italian film poster
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| Directed by | Umberto Lenzi |
| Produced by | Luciano Martino |
| Screenplay by | Ernesto Gastaldi |
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| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Federico Zanni |
| Edited by | Eugenio Alabiso |
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Production
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Dania Film
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| Distributed by | Interfilm |
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Release date
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8 August 1974 |
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Box office | 1,168,745,000 lire |
Almost Human (Italian: Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare/ Milan Hates: The Police Can't Shoot), also known as The Kidnapping of Mary Lou and The Death Dealer, is a 1974 Italian poliziotteschi film directed by Umberto Lenzi. This film stars Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, Ray Lovelock and Anita Strindberg.
A bunch of thieves kidnap a boy in a red hoodie from his mother's arms. This is followed by an action-packed car chase full of breaking boxes, defacing cars, and slim getaways. The chase ends when the kidnappers are saved by an oncoming train, which cuts off the police from their trail. They find this a perfect opportunity to dump the kid and make their getaway. The boy is returned to his family but the kidnappers' gang beat them up for their failure. Following a castration threat, the kidnapper/thief goes home to rape his girlfriend. Following this, he robs a cigarette dispenser and stabs the beat cop who catches him. This leads to a detective to start asking questions. The following day, while the thief is picking up his aforementioned girlfriend from her office, he notices the young brown-haired daughter of his girlfriend's boss, and decides to kidnap her. After a love-making session with his girlfriend in her apartment, the kidnapper leaves to find his friend and convinces him to join his plan. We are shown how tough a cop the detective is through a cut scene. The protagonist (kidnapper) and his gang start stalking the girl while she's playing tennis with her father and his friends. Using his girlfriend's stolen red car, the thieves go buy guns from an old confidant ("Papa") of theirs. The guns are worth a 100 thousand per piece, so if they kill someone, their confidant keeps their deposit. Not wanting to pay their confidant the deposit, they murder Papa and his staff, and make their escape.
They then catch up with their target while she is discussing her future with the boy she wants to marry in his car in the middle of the forest. Her boyfriend shows his reluctance to marry her unless she refuses her inheritance on the basis of principal. The girl refuses and starts making out with her boyfriend against his will. The kidnappers then attack and kidnap her during her lovemaking & murder her boyfriend. But the girls escapes into the forest until she reaches a bungalow, where she is taken in, and the family agree to protect her, but the bad guys break in, murder an old man, humiliate the rest, and run off with the girl (who they stash in an abandoned ship yard).
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