May 30, 2022
A fleeting appearance from Gareth Thomas as an unnamed plainclothes detective in, of all things, 1973 poliziottesco Si può essere più bastardi dell'ispettore Cliff? (released under a raft of different titles including Blue Movie Blackmail, Mafia Junction, and Super Bitch)
#fave spotting#gareth thomas#roj blake#blake's 7#Si può essere più bastardi dell'ispettore Cliff?#blue movie blackmail#mafia junction#super bitch#1973#poliziotteschi#italian cinema#this is one of my favourite faves spotted#for the sheer unlikeliness of it#italian genre films‚ particularly gialli and poliziotteschi‚ were known for exotic locations and jet setting plots#this is a very rare case of the italians not only setting a film in london but actually bothering to go there and film it#(believe me they weren't above passing off rural italy as bits of england)#(for evidence see The Living Dead at the Mamchester Morgue‚ which has a credits sequence shot in england but is then very clearly shot in#the Italian countryside which is somehow meant to be Manchester)#anyway where was i#oh yes. so we're actually in actual london and with a supporting cast made up of Italians shipped over for the purpose#and some actual UK actors who stumbled into the film. Morris Perry is here. Patricia Hayes has a car chase. Michael Sheard gets his brains#splattered on a newspaper he's reading. it really is a bizarre convergence of two distinct media types i happen to love#very very odd.#if any GT completists were tempted to track this down be warned: he's only onscreen for about a minute or two and also this is from#the sleazier nastier side of the italian film market. a lot of violence and sex and unpleasantness (a fr tw in that there's a very brutal#gaybashing scene). i mean the Super Bitch title kind of suggests the tone but it's actually very inappropriate; not only for being#offensive but bc the lead female character barely has any agency outside of the bastard men in the film and is actually much nicer than#our antihero. a super bitch she is not. she's also played by Stephanie Beacham so that's nice#omg i just realised.. there's a good chance Super Bitch is a later video title coined to grab the attention of Dynasty fans#should have realised. sigh.
