They tried other titles for this movie - Mafia Junction, Super B****, Blue Movie Blackmail (in the UK, where Stephanie Beacham's nude scenes were the selling point) - but there may have never been a film with a better name than Can Anyone Be More of a B****** than Inspector Cliff?
Also: No. There cannot.
Inspector Cliff Hoyst (Ivan Rassimov, as always, a sinister and suave man) is an undercover cop who spends as much time committing his own crimes as he does stopping drug smugglers like Mama the Turk (Patricia Hayes). Meanwhile, Beacham plays Joanne, a sex worker who gets rich men on camera and then blackmails them. Cliff may or may not love her, but he knows that he can take her away from all this if they can put Mama's gang up against the gang that Joanna works for, run by Morrell (Ettore Manni).
Then, they can get that statue filled with heroin.
Between killers who sing while doing their jobs, Rassimov laughing that sinister laugh and comedy actress Hayes seemingly having a blast playing a gangster, this movie is all about swinging London and the fact that for everyone here, death is around every corner.
Massimo Dallamano was the cinematographer on A Fistful of Dollars, so you know he knows his double crosses. He was also smart enough to get a swinging score from Riz Ortolani that was so good, it was used in the movie he would have directed had he not died, Red Rings of Fear.
There's also an old rich politician who likes to dress up like a rabbit. I could watch Rassimov read a newspaper, so I was thrilled by having him as the hero - well, not really, more like villain who runs the story, I guess - and there's so much strange stuff in here that it's worth sitting down with.
Also: No. There cannot.
Inspector Cliff Hoyst (Ivan Rassimov, as always, a sinister and suave man) is an undercover cop who spends as much time committing his own crimes as he does stopping drug smugglers like Mama the Turk (Patricia Hayes). Meanwhile, Beacham plays Joanne, a sex worker who gets rich men on camera and then blackmails them. Cliff may or may not love her, but he knows that he can take her away from all this if they can put Mama's gang up against the gang that Joanna works for, run by Morrell (Ettore Manni).
Then, they can get that statue filled with heroin.
Between killers who sing while doing their jobs, Rassimov laughing that sinister laugh and comedy actress Hayes seemingly having a blast playing a gangster, this movie is all about swinging London and the fact that for everyone here, death is around every corner.
Massimo Dallamano was the cinematographer on A Fistful of Dollars, so you know he knows his double crosses. He was also smart enough to get a swinging score from Riz Ortolani that was so good, it was used in the movie he would have directed had he not died, Red Rings of Fear.
There's also an old rich politician who likes to dress up like a rabbit. I could watch Rassimov read a newspaper, so I was thrilled by having him as the hero - well, not really, more like villain who runs the story, I guess - and there's so much strange stuff in here that it's worth sitting down with.