Il Commisario Pepe (1969)
Directed by Ettore Scola
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Police Comedy, Satire |
Run Time - 104 min. |
Countries - Italy |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Dan Pavlides
Pepe (Ugo Tognazzi) is the progressive chief of police in a small Italian town. Using his brains instead of his gun, his investigations net far more results than the traditional cops. Most of his inquiries involve arresting prostitutes and orgy organizers and halting gay and Lesbian lechers from adding helpless victims to their list of amorous conquests. The power structure soon becomes concerned over the success of his unconventional methods and tries to stall the cases in the judicial process. Most of the situations are taken from actual news events and police reports in Italy for this comedy satire.
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police-chief, prostitute/prostitution, small-town, unconventional