'Blazing Magnum'(1976) - Alberto De Martino.

'Blazing Magnum' is an exhausting, bullet-paced, garotte-taut, blissfully bellicose Euro-crime classic! A barnstorming B-movie with remarkably assured, bravura filmmaking from the dynamic director, Alberto De Martino. Set within a grim-looking Montréal, the quintessentially hard-nosed, nimble-fisted, short-fused, Magnum-wielding cop, Tony Siatta, (Stuart Whitman) and the ever-svelte, super charismatic genre movie hunk, John Saxon relentlessly pursue an especially brutal, opportunistic killer in this consistently thrilling, street tough, righteously redlining crime thriller from the knuckle-dusting heyday of PC-baiting action cinema!

Alberto De Martino's histrionic 'Blazing Magnum' remains one of the more visceral, gallopingly gonzo examples of the populist Euro-crime actioner so ubiquitous in the gleefully exploitative grindhouse era of 1970s! Riotously replete with all the wantonly wig-splitting ultra-violence, hard-boiled dialogue and locomotive car-nage one might ever hope to see; including a well-documented, tarmac thrashing, calamitously kinetic car chase that, perhaps, usurps many others! This monstrously entertaining, pistol-packing, scumbag-tracking 70s thriller is among the very best the joyously blood n' thunder genre has to offer, and noisily yields utterly essential, palm-sweatingly primal Poliziotteschi excitement! The ferociously funky score by that unheralded groove-genius, Armando Trovajoli is arguably one of the genre's very best; gritty, adrenaline-spiking urban crime funk that ranks alongside the very best pile-driving, gonzoid wah-wah funk the godlike soundtrack duo Guido & Maurizio de Angelis have to offer!