Also known as The Big Boss, Mr. Scarface and Blood and Bullets, this was directed by Fernando Di Leo. He started his career mainly as a writer, including A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Massacre Time, Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man and many more. He co-wrote it with Peter Berling, who was often in Klaus Kinski movies before writing a series of conspiracy novels about the Priory of Sion.
Tony (Henry Baer) works as a money collector for Cherico (Edmund Purdom), but he dreams of leaving his life of crime behind and settling on the beaches of Brazil. He decides to fast-forward all the hard work of being a henchman by working with Rick (Al Cliver) and Napoli (Vittorio Caprioli) to rob the biggest boss of all, Scarface Manzari (Jack Palance).
It takes its time getting there, with Tony mostly cracking wise, cracking schools and, well, cracking smiles at the many ladies he sees during his days and nights of collecting blood money. He would have never even considered going after Scarface if he hadn’t killed Cherico instead of repaying his debt. By the end, our hero has tracked his enemy — actually, his lifelong enemy, even if we don’t get that knowledge for some time — to a slaughterhouse where he wipes out the entire family.
Added bonus: Gisela Hahn (Devil Hunter, White Pop Jesus) is in the cast. And man, Jack Palance is so macho that he even makes a cigarette holder look manly. Like, the same kind of long effete cigarette holder that, let’s say, Cruella de Vil would use.
