{{Infobox film | name = Convoy Busters | image = Un-poliziotto-scomodo-italian-movie-poster-md.jpg | alt = | caption = | native_name = <!-- {{Infobox name module|language|title}} or {{Infobox name module|title}} --> | director = Stelvio Massi | screenplay = {{plainlist|*Gino Capone *Teodoro Corrà *Stelvio Massi{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}}}} | story = Danilo Massi{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}} | based_on = <!-- {{Based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work|additional creator(s), if necessary}} --> | starring = {{plainlist|*Maurizio Merli *Massimo Serato *Mimmo Palmara *Marco Gelardini}} | music = Stelvio Cipriani{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}} | cinematography = Sergio Rubini{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}} | editing = Mauro Bonanni{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}} | studio = P.A.C. - Produzioni Atlas Consorziate{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}} | distributor = P.A.C. | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1978|12|23|Italy}} | runtime = 99 minutes{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}} | country = Italy{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}} | language = | budget = | gross = ₤989.391 million }}
'''''Convoy Busters''''' ({{langx|it|Un poliziotto scomodo}}) is a 1978 ''poliziotteschi'' film directed by Stelvio Massi and starring Maurizio Merli.
==Cast== *Maurizio Merli: Inspector Francesco Olmi *Olga Karlatos: Anna *Massimo Serato: Degan Sr. *Mario Feliciani: Quaestor *Mimmo Palmara: Corchi *Marco Gelardini: Degan Jr. *Attilio Duse: Brigadier Ballarin *Nello Pazzafini:criminal
==Production== ''Convoy Busters'' was filmed on location in Rome and Civitanova Marche.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}}
==Releases== ''Convoy Busters'' was distributed theatrically in Italy by P.A.C. - Produzioni Atlas Consorziate on 23 December 1978.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}} It grossed a total of 989,390,960 Italian lira on its domestic release.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}} Italian film historian and critic Roberto Curti stated that this gross was no par with Maurizio Merli's previous films noting that his star power was beginning to fade at this point.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=240}}
The film released by NoShame on DVD in the United States.{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}}
==Reception== Curti stated that the film was "unusually well-received by critics", including Vittorio Spiga who praised the film as Massi's best work, referring to Massi as managing "to renew the genre somehow: by borrowing the style of the Italian Western, its violence and characters, while taking the spectacular angle and the fast pacing from American cinema."{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=240}} Tom Milne of the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' stated that "Although Stelvio Massi places numbing reliance on the zoom lens, it is competently enough done, with a sound performance by Maurizio Merli in the Eastwood role."<ref name="mfb">{{cite magazine|magazine=Monthly Film Bulletin|title=Poliziotto scomodo, Il (Convoy Busters)|last=Milne|first=Tom|publisher=British Film Institute|volume=47|issue=555|date=April 1980|page=74}}</ref> Milne also commented on the dubbing, declaring it "horribly dubbed and stultifyingly tedious."<ref name="mfb" />
In a retrospective review, Curti declared the film to be "perhaps Stelvio Massi's best effort, and one of the better late Italian ''poliziotteschi''"{{sfn|Curti|2013|p=240}}
==References== ===Footnotes=== {{reflist}}
===Sources=== {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book |last=Curti |first=Roberto |title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0786469765 |year=2013 }} {{Refend}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0152018}}
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