---
title: 'Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Umberto Lenzi'
released: '1976-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 90
genres:
  - 'Action'
countries:
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/free-hand-for-a-tough-cop-1976'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075352/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)

1976 · 90 min · Action · Italy

Original title: Il trucido e lo sbirro

## Synopsis

Free Hand for a Tough Cop, also known as Tough Cop, is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi and the second entry into the Tanzi/Moretto/Monnezza shared universe. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi a.k.a. "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's Brothers Till We Die, in Destruction Force by Stelvio Massi (1977) and, with slight differences, in Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici by Bruno Corbucci (1980) and in Francesco Massaro's Il lupo e l'agnello (1980).

## Credits

- **Director:** [Umberto Lenzi](https://cinepixo.com/people/umberto-lenzi)
- **Screenplay:** [Umberto Lenzi](https://cinepixo.com/people/umberto-lenzi), [Dardano Sacchetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/dardano-sacchetti), [Elisa Briganti](https://cinepixo.com/people/elisa-briganti)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bruno Canfora](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruno-canfora)
- **Director of Photography:** [Luigi Kuveiller](https://cinepixo.com/people/luigi-kuveiller)
- **Editor:** [Eugenio Alabiso](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugenio-alabiso)

## Cast

- [Giovanni Cianfriglia](https://cinepixo.com/people/giovanni-cianfriglia)
- [Nicoletta Machiavelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicoletta-machiavelli)
- [Ernesto Colli](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernesto-colli)
- [Tom Felleghy](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-felleghy)
- [Claudio Cassinelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/claudio-cassinelli)
- [Salvatore Billa](https://cinepixo.com/people/salvatore-billa)
- [Renato Mori](https://cinepixo.com/people/renato-mori)
- [Rosario Borelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/rosario-borelli)
- [Henry Silva](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-silva)
- [Biagio Pelligra](https://cinepixo.com/people/biagio-pelligra)
- [Massimo Bonetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/massimo-bonetti)
- [Sara Franchetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/sara-franchetti)
- [Arturo Dominici](https://cinepixo.com/people/arturo-dominici)
- [Riccardo Petrazzi](https://cinepixo.com/people/riccardo-petrazzi)
- [Umberto Raho](https://cinepixo.com/people/umberto-raho)

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