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La Polizia Chiede Aiuto (1974)

Crime | 86 minutes
3,50 52 votes

Genre: Crime / Thriller

Duration: 86 minuten

Alternative titles: What Have They Done to Your Daughters? / The Coed Murders / The Police Ask for Help

Country: Italy

Directed by: Massimo Dallamano

Stars: Giovanna Ralli, Claudio Cassinelli and Mario Adorf

IMDb score: 6,9 (2.999)

Releasedate: 10 August 1974

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La Polizia Chiede Aiuto plot

"Just another suicide until the police discovered... A bloody bathroom. A maniac with a cleaver. A schoolgirl sex ring."

Investigating the apparent suicide of a young teenage girl, the police stumble upon an underground network of teenage prostitution. The police also track down a motorcycling killer.

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wendyvortex

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Under revision!

Rented it a very long time ago at the Jumbo Video Store in Arnhem (on good old VHS).

It stood there among the gigantic horror collection (with the most obscure and bizarre titles you could wish for)... nowadays it has become a sex shop.... a terrible shame, but it might yield more financially than the better C and Z films.

My first real introduction to the giallo phenomenon, and immediately a very convincing one.

At its core, just an Italian thriller, but spiced up with a lot of gore, sleaze, and of course the fantastic Italian music on the soundtrack (knock...knock....just read that this was also used in the artsy genre tribute "Amer").

And of course, genre-specific, the invisible killer... in this case in a motorcycle suit with a full-face helmet and armed with a butcher's axe.

Sophisticated entertainment is something else, but this is one of the many top picks in the genre.

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Richard_Voorhees

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A film with a rather raw subject that is actually presented in a way that is not shocking enough. The soundtrack is certainly decent, but the many gaps in which we see the detective and his female partner doing their work mean that the tension is not palpable throughout the entire film.
Furthermore, the use of dolls for the murdered people is quite striking. They could have depicted this a bit more subtly. For instance, in one of the first scenes, the hanging girl appears very prominently.
I personally find the fucking/raping of underage girls sickening, and here and there they manage to place a strong emphasis on it. The story of the incompetent, sadistic doctor who used a bottle to penetrate the ladies hits particularly hard.
Furthermore, in the bathroom they delightfully went overboard with blood. Right, the man who was to pieces in there was still alive when it happened, but even then, I don't think the splatters
fly all the way to the ceiling.
Anyway, the final part, in which it turns out that a large portion of the perpetrators are spared because they are important figures, is somewhat disappointing. It really ends in a way that is also frequently used in other crime films/series.
What remains is a solid film, but don't expect Argento-style tactics.

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Bobbejaantje

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Quite a dramatic title – the literal translation from Italian would sound much better (“The Police Ask for Help”). Otherwise, a fine hybrid between *poliziottesco* and *giallo*. For a change, we have a woman joining the investigation – as an assistant to the DA. It is a film typically rooted in the seventies – lots of social unrest – with suspects recognized from a film shot at a demonstration. Furthermore, it certainly has a cynical undertone regarding the resolution. You see that often in films from that period; a sort of conspiracy by the elite that always wins. The murderer is caught, but will the elite clients of the pedophile ring be dealt with as well? That remains an open question at the end of the film.

I think the direction is fine, complemented by a beautiful score by Stelvio Cipriani that is alternately menacing and pastoral. The acting performances are decent.

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