June 7: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Buddy Cops! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next.

Seven years ago, after a daring bank robbery in Detroit, FBI agents Doug Bennett (Terence Hill) and Steve Forest (Bud Spencer) were only able to arrest one of the three criminals, Joe Garret (Richard Liberty, yes, Dr. Logan from Day of the Dead). They never found the other two thieves or the $20 million they stole. And as soon as Garret gets out of jail, he shows up in Miami and even sooner is dead. Doug has stayed an agent, but Steve is now a flight instructor. This is the chance to solve the one case that they never did, so they disguise themselves as police officers and go to Miami. Well, Doug wants to solve the case. Steve wants left alone, but Doug tells him their old boss Tanney (C.B. Seay) has been killed. It’s a lie just to get him to go.

Miami Supercops is the last non-Western that Hill and Spencer would be in together — 1994’s Troublemakers is their last movie — and it’s an attempt to stay current and be like Miami Vice while reminding their fans of 1977’s Crime Busters. But yeah — Miami Vice — and we all know how much Italians not only love to rip off pop culture but to go to Florida to make movies. This doesn’t have as much of the humor as their past films and way more guns than slaps. Oh yeah — this also has some Beverly Hills Cop in it and has the 80s synth that you want it to have as a soundtrack (Carmelo and Michelangelo La Bionda, who also did the Antonio Margheriti movie Virtual Weapon that teams up Hill with Marvin Hagler, Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure and Super Fuzz, are the composers).

Bruno Corbucci made the journey from writing two of the most violent Westerns ever — Django and The Great Silence to name two — for his brother Sergio and ended up making movies like this, Aladdin and multiple movies with Tomas Milan playing Inspector Nico Giraldi. He wrote this movie with Luciano Vincenzoni, who also was the writer for Raw Deal, Orca, A Quiet Place In the Country and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

I kind of like the character of Annabelle, a larger woman played by Rhonda Lunstedt, who was a pro bodybuilder and one of the touring American Gladiators. Her only other acting role is in an episode of Miami Vice — that came in good here, you know? — and in Sergio Martino’s wild Uppercut Man, a movie I keep trying to get people to watch. Italian-American character actor Buffy Dee is also in this. You may remember him as Barney the club owner in Mako, the Jaws of Death. He was also in Nightmare Beach, the Hill and Spencer movie Go For It and Lady Ice.

My goal is to watch all the Hill and Spencer movies, as they always fill me with joy. Also: There’s a new video game, Slaps and Beans 2, that is somehow available in the U.S. I feel like it’s been made only for me.

You can watch this on YouTube.