Street Law (1974)
Street Law with its original Italian title Il cittadino si ribella is a 1974 poliziotteschi film from Enzo G. Castellari. Starring Franco Nero and Barbara Bach.
Plot Street Law
Carlo Antonelli (Franco Nero) is an engineer who is mugged by a gang of badguys.
After the police drop their investigation, he decides to take justice into his own hands. The muggers beat him again. 
Then a young robber helps him to take his revenge. The final confrontation is between Carlo and the main Mugger.
Notable scenes
The slow motion chase of Franco Nero by a car.
Making of Street Law
Street Law was the inspiration for Castellari’s film Vigilante (1982).
Franco Nero did almost all of his own stunts.
All of the interiors in the film were shot before the exteriors, so the wounds on Franco Nero’s face were invented before the actual beating had been shot. They later had to coordinate the beating to match the makeup he had had on while shooting the interiors.
Franco Nero did his own English dubbing in the English version as Nero knows English very well. Nero know both Italian and English very well.
Enzo G. Castellari plays the gangster in the denim jacket in the ship yard.
The set for the post office was built in a train station.
Our view on Street law
Enzo Castellari is credited as being one of the pioneers of the crime thriller genre in Italy. He proves to be ingenious in his simple mastery of action sequence staging. His use of slow motion scenes is beautiful en looks like the style of director Peckinpaw.
Trailer
Where to buy
DVD/VHS/Betamax/VCC LP
Where to stream public domain
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Details
Genre: poliziotteschi
Released in: 1974
Era: seventies
Actors: Franco Nero, Barbara Bach
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Poster artist: Unknown
Country: Italy
