Mario Piave

A potent odyssey of armed robberies, double crosses, insane asylums, and some of the most startling pathos and politics in the history of the genre.

This first collaboration between director Umberto Lenzi and star Tomas Milian remains both "a degenerate treat" (Mondo Digital) and "definitive Eurocrime" (DVD Talk): When a small-time criminal (Milian) kidnaps a wealthy industrialist's daughter, he'll trigger a depraved spree of class warfare, mass murder and the rage of a police commissioner (Henry Silva) determined to end the carnage.

When his friend dies in the crossfire between two rival gangs, a rugged biker named Rambo stokes the flames to get both sides to snuff each other out.