Poliziotto superpiù (1980)

Director:

Sergio Corbucci

Writers:

Robert Brodie Booth (dialogue)
Sabatino Ciuffini (writer)
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Release Date:

2 October 1981 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Comedy | Fantasy

Tagline:

Faster than a speeding ticket. More powerful than a SWAT team. And up, up and away the funniest super hero of them all!

Plot:

Red powder from a nuclear explosion gives a police officer super powers as long as he doesn't see anything red. He is eventually framed for murder and is unsuccessfully executed by many different methods.

Plot Keywords:

Nuclear | Police | Brawl | Android | Detonation

Cast

Terence Hill	...	Policeman Dave Speed
Ernest Borgnine	...	Sgt. Willy Dunlop
Joanne Dru	...	Rosy Labouche
Marc Lawrence	...	Torpedo
Julie Gordon	...	Evelyn
Lee Sandman	...	McEnroy
Salvatore Borghese	...	Paradise Alley
Woody Woodbury	...	NASA Major
Dow Stout
Herb Goldstein	...	Silvius
Sergio Smacchi	...	Slot Machine
Don Sebastian	...	Dingo
Claudio Ruffini	...	Tragedy Row
Jack McDermott
Charles D. Thomas
Charles Buie
Bobby Gale
Ben Taylor
Florance McGee
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Harold Bergman	...	Priest (uncredited)
Buffy Dee	...	Ticket seller with turban on fair (uncredited)
Linda Roberts	...	Photographer (uncredited)
Julian Voloshin	...	Old man in fishing boat (uncredited)

Directed by
Sergio Corbucci

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Robert Brodie Booth		dialogue
Sabatino Ciuffini		writer
Sergio Corbucci		writer

Produced by
Vittorio Galiano	....	producer
Josi W. Konski	....	producer

Original Music by
Michelangelo La Bionda

Cinematography by
Silvano Ippoliti

Film Editing by
Eugenio Alabiso		(as Eugene Ballaby)

Production Design by
Marco Dentici

Costume Design by
Franco Carretti

Makeup Department
Maurizio Giustini	....	makeup artist (as Maurice St. Just)
Armenio Marroni	....	hair stylist (as Ennio Marroni)

Production Management
Josi W. Konski	....	production manager
Maurizio Pastrovich	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Babu Subramaniam 'T.R.'	....	assistant director

Art Department
Armando Vincenti	....	property master

Sound Department
Nick Alexander	....	sound editor
Roberto Petrozzi	....	sound mixer (as Bob Petrozzi)

Special Effects by
Cataldo Galliano	....	special effects (as Cass Gillespie)

Camera and Electrical Department
Antonio Annunziata	....	assistant camera (as Tony Annunziata)
Ettore Corso	....	assistant camera (as Saul Carswell)
Enrico Sasso	....	camera operator (as Hank Whitecliff)
Ermanno Serto	....	still photographer (as Herman Sertoff)
Gaetano Valle	....	camera operator (as Nathaniel Valle)

Other crew
Maria Luisa Rosen	....	continuity (as Marisa Rosen)
Jerry Ross	....	choreographer

Production Companies

• El Pico S.A.
• TVI
• Transcinema

Distributors

• AVCO Embassy Pictures (1981) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Columbia-EMI-Warner (198?) (UK) (theatrical)
• New World-Mutual (1982) (Canada) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Warner-Columbia Filmverleih (1980) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Millennium Storm (2004) (Italy) (DVD)
• Vídeo Mercury Films (2006) (Spain) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Super Snooper (Italy) (UK) (video title)
El superpoderoso (Spain)
Super Fuzz (USA)
Supersnooper (Australia)
Der Supercop (West Germany) [de]
Süper polis (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Superkyttä (Finland) [fi]
Supersnooper (Sweden) [sv]
To pio poniro lagoniko (Greece) [el]
Un drôle de flic (France) [fr]

Runtime:

Germany:104 min | Netherlands:107 min | USA:97 min

Country:

USA | Spain | Italy

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Spain:T | Iceland:12 | West Germany:6 (f) | Australia:G | Finland:K-12 | Norway:12 (1980) | UK:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Miami, Florida, USA

Company:

El Pico S.A.

Goofs:

Continuity: Sylvias buys an ice cream cone at the race track which is rather tall, when he sees the thugs a few seconds later the camera from a different angle shows the ice cream cone is considerable smaller.

Quotes:

Willy Dunlop: Now I'm not saying they weren't counterfeit fish, but even if they were, there's no law against it. Or is there?
The Chief: You're the one who gave him only five minutes to get here.
Willy Dunlop: Well, then he's got an answering service! That's what he's got!
Dave Speed: That's not true, Sarge.

Movie Connections:

Edited into 42nd Street Forever, Volume 1 (2005) (V)

Soundtrack:

Super Snooper

Two forces, equal and opposite, equal zero.

That was Dave Speed's brilliant explanation for the loss of his superpowers.

I am ashamed to admit I spent most of the summer of 1985 watching this after I'd taped it on HBO. Those precious days will never return, but at least watching Superfuzz was better than real life for me back in 85.

All these years later, to this day, I can sing you the theme song. Now I just need to convince my wife to watch it (5-10 minutes will do).

I give it a 7 just because the pre-adolescent in me deserves a voice too.