# Convoy Busters
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{{Infobox film
| name = Convoy Busters
| image = Un-poliziotto-scomodo-italian-movie-poster-md.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| native_name =
| director = [Stelvio Massi](/source/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 =
| starring = {{plainlist|*[Maurizio Merli](/source/Maurizio_Merli)
*[Massimo Serato](/source/Massimo_Serato)
*[Mimmo Palmara](/source/Mimmo_Palmara)
*[Marco Gelardini](/source/Marco_Gelardini)}}
| music = [Stelvio Cipriani](/source/Stelvio_Cipriani){{sfn|Curti|2013|p=239}}
| cinematography = [Sergio Rubini](/source/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 = [₤](/source/Italian_lira)989.391 million
}}
'''''Convoy Busters''''' ({{langx|it|Un poliziotto scomodo}}) is a 1978 ''[poliziotteschi](/source/poliziotteschi)'' film directed by [Stelvio Massi](/source/Stelvio_Massi) and starring [Maurizio Merli](/source/Maurizio_Merli).
==Cast==
*[Maurizio Merli](/source/Maurizio_Merli): Inspector Francesco Olmi
*[Olga Karlatos](/source/Olga_Karlatos): Anna
*[Massimo Serato](/source/Massimo_Serato): Degan Sr.
*[Mario Feliciani](/source/Mario_Feliciani): Quaestor
*[Mimmo Palmara](/source/Mimmo_Palmara): Corchi
*[Marco Gelardini](/source/Marco_Gelardini): Degan Jr.
*[Attilio Duse](/source/Attilio_Duse): Brigadier Ballarin
*[Nello Pazzafini](/source/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](/source/Italian_lire) 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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."[{{cite magazine|magazine=[Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/Monthly_Film_Bulletin)|title=Poliziotto scomodo, Il (Convoy Busters)|last=Milne|first=Tom|publisher=[British Film Institute](/source/British_Film_Institute)|volume=47|issue=555|date=April 1980|page=74}}] Milne also commented on the dubbing, declaring it "horribly dubbed and stultifyingly tedious."