影片反映了意大利1816至1817年的历史。当时，在拿破仑政权垮台和维也纳代表大会后，意大利笼罩在开始全面复辟的气氛中。爱国的共和秘密社团间统治意大利北部的奥地利人和意大利封建贵族进行了殊死的斗争。影片围绕当时的一个革命社团“崇高兄弟会”和这一社团的成员、贵族富尔维奥展开。富尔维奥愤世嫉俗，隐退过着宫廷式的生活，但由于对自己的现状不满而参加了社团的一次革命行动，最后背叛了他的同志。

1908年圣诞节是墨西拿（Messina），地中海最富裕的商人城市之一。彼得（Peter）是一个富有的英国家庭的13岁儿子，因对儿童，动物和仆人的残酷而臭名昭著。一天晚上，他被伏击，并在该市哥特式公墓的地下棺材中醒来，被埋葬以报复一名仆人男孩从其母亲的屋子中对他的残酷对待。当一场强烈的地震将墨西拿夷为平地时，彼得被困住了，他的下落被遗忘了。直到一个世纪之后，一位英国考古学家和他的女儿才到达这座城市。

被称为教授的男人是由托纳多雷执导的1986年意大利戏剧。他的电影处女作是基于意大利犯罪老板Raffaele Cutolo的真实故事，并改编自Giuseppe Marrazzo的小说。国际版本比原意大利版本短。

Maurizio Merli and Tomas Milian star in probably the most typical, yet completely enjoyable Italian crime movie by Umberto Lenzi. With a blazing soundtrack by Franco Micalizzi and some exciting camerawork by Federico Zanni, this film is fast-paced and furious although the narrative makes relatively little sense. This reminds me of THE RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS, a film Dardano Sacchetti also penned, which was completely fun and enjoyable although it didn't make any sense whatsoever.
The best scenes in this movie have to be the extended car chases. Milian hijacks an ambulence and kills all the people on board for no reason. When it crashes in a crowded flea market, Milian jumps out of the ambulence and just starts randomly firing his sub-machine gun into the crowd to create enough confusion to get away. Another great scene has a gang of upper-class teenagers led by the baby-faced Stefano Patrizi who get bored of nightclubbing and proceed to rape a girl and beat up her boyfriend in a vacant lot. Patrizi is wholely unsympathetic as he punches the boyfriend in the gut repeatedly and knees him in the face, then making weird gestures with a nearby piece of wood. Merli later pops by their nightclub and smashes Patrizi's face right through a pinball machine and then simultaneously beats the tar out of the six or so members of the gang!
This film comes fast and furious. Good performances all around by a veteran cast (with Arthur Kennedy, Ivan Rassimov, and Luciano Pigozzi along for the ride). It's not the most coherent of Lenzi's works, but it's definitely a genre classic.
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