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''Weapons of Death'' ( it, Napoli spara!, also known as ''Naples Shoots'') is a ''
poliziottesco Poliziotteschi (; singular ''poliziottesco'') constitute a subgenre of crime and action films that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s. They are also known as ''polizieschi all'italiana'', ...
'' film directed by Mario Caiano in
1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democrat ...
. It is spin-off from the ''Commissioner Betti'' Trilogy as the character of Gennarino (still played by Massimo Deda) returns from the film '' Violent Naples''.


Cast

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Leonard Mann Leonard Mann (15 November 1895 – 29 April 1981) was an Australian poet, and novelist. Life He served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and with the Department of Aircraft Production in World War II. He was, in Septembe ...
as Commissioner Belli *
Henry Silva Henry Silva (September 23, 1926 – September 14, 2022) was an American actor. A prolific character actor, Silva was a regular staple of international genre cinema, usually playing criminals or gangsters. His notable film appearances include ...
as Santoro *
Jeff Blynn Jeff Blynn is an American former actor and model. Blynn started his modeling career in New York with the Ford Modeling Agency. He moved to Europe, where he had enormous success modeling first in Paris with the agency Paris Planning and then in ...
as Guidi * Evelyne Stewart as Lucia Parisi * Massimo Deda as Gennarino * Adolfo Lastretti as Pedophile * Kirsten Gille as Taxi patron * Mario Deda as Nardi, Belli's assistant * Enrico Maisto as Don Licata * Tommaso Palladino as Don Calise *
Tino Bianchi Tino Bianchi (21 June 1905 – 4 January 1996) was an Italian actor. He performed in more than fifty films between 1933 and 1995. Filmography External links * 1905 births 1996 deaths Italian male film actors People from São Paulo ...
as Don Alfredo * Mario Erpichini as Chief of Police * Maurizio Gueli as Serrao * Massimo Vanni as Rosati *
Maurizio Mattioli Maurizio Mattioli (born 3 June 1950) is an Italian actor and comedian. Life and career Born in Rome, Mattioli started his career in 1973, when he appeared in the RAI variety show ''Dove sta Zazà''. He got his first successes as a member of th ...
as Special Agent


Release

''Weapons of Death'' was released in Italy on February 22, 1977 through the distributor Fida Cinematografica. It grossed a total of 1,049,324,370
Italian lira The lira (; plural lire) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. It was first introduced by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1807 at par with the French franc, and was subsequently adopted by the different states that would eventually ...
on its release.


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* Commissioner Betti 1977 films 1970s Italian-language films 1977 crime films Poliziotteschi films Films about the Camorra Films scored by Francesco De Masi Films set in Naples Unofficial sequel films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-film-stub