The Great Kidnapping
Release date: 1973-11-16
Votes: 9
Genres: Crime
In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..
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