Oringinal release date: 15/11/1961
International release information: Italy – Il segugio (98 mins)
Italy / France
A Cinerad – Cinematografica Radici (Milano) and Paris-Elysée Films (Paris) production.
Director: Bernard-Roland
Story: Luigi Radici
Screenplay: Sandro Valletti
Cinematography: Alfio Contini
Music: Henry Salvador
Art direction: Gianni Polidori
Cast: Henri Salvador (Gregg), Valeria Fabrizi (Morenita), Memmo Carotenuto (Sam Pestalozzo), Aldo Giuffrè (Manone), Nino Taranto (Don Ciccillo), Francis Blanche (Captain Fornace), Nello Appodia, Luigi Borghese (Bobo), Piero De Vico (a brigadier), Giustino Durano (a criminal), Ignazio Leone (one of Manone”s band), Enzo Maggio, Romano Milani, Alfonso Mathis, MArio Polletin, Carlo Pisacane (member of Don Ciccillo”s band), Mario Passante (member of Don Ciccillo”s band), Dolores Palumbo (PAola), Amerigo Santarelli, Fausto Signorelli, Gilberto Trompini, Renato Terra, Piero Vidali
Plot: Gregg, a young man, wants to become a detective. He receives a telephone call from a girl inviting him to a secret place, where he”ll be entrusted with an important mission. It turns out to be a trap, though: the corpse of a bandit – with a wooden leg which has been holllowed out and filled with heroin – has been put in his car. Two feuding gangs are after the corspe, and Gregg”s stuck right in the middle of them…
Notes: A comic vehicle for Henry Salvador, a very popular Franco – Guyanese singer who plied a similar kind of gallic rock”n”roll to Johnny Hallyday as well as more South American influenced jazz and bossanova. He was also another early example of a black European star. Despite the French protagonist and director, this had a lot of Italian input, with virtually the entire supporting cast and crew being made up of Cinecitta regulars. It doesn”t appear to have had an international release, but it looks interesting…
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