How to Kill a Judge

1974 film by Damiano Damiani

How to Kill a Judge

Directed by| Damiano Damiani
Written by| Damiano Damiani
Enrico Ribulsi
Fulvio Gicca Palli
Produced by| Mario Cecchi Gori
Starring| Franco Nero
Cinematography| Mario Vulpiani
Edited by| Antonio Siciliano
Music by| Riz Ortolani

Release date

* 1974 (1974)

Country| Italy
Language| Italian

How to Kill a Judge (Italian: Perché si uccide un magistrato), also known as The Murder of a Magistrate and Why Does One Kill a Magistrate?, is a 1974 Italian crime-thriller film directed by Damiano Damiani. It is the final chapter in the Damiani's trilogy about mafia, after The Day of the Owl and Confessions of a Police Captain.[1]

It was released on DVD by Blue Underground in March 2006.[2]

## Plot

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Giacomo Solaris is a film-maker whose latest released feature film is a crime thriller about a judge who gets too friendly with the Mafia and is murdered. A resentful Sicilian magistrate orders the film seized, but then the judge winds up dead, in a fashion just like that in Solaris's movie. Solaris realizes that corrupt political forces are pulling strings and attempting to cover up murders of his friends who begin to die in grisly ways. Will he learn the truth about the murder of the judge in time?

## Cast

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The film was dubbed into English with voice actors based within Italy, with Franco being the sole actor to reprise his role and dub himself over in English.

Character | Original actor | English voice actor

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Giacomo Solaris  | Franco Nero
Giudice De Tonarre  | Pierluigi Aprà | Frank von Kuegelgen
Sen. Derrasi  | Giancarlo Badessi | Gene Luotto
Lawyer Meloria  | Luciano Catenacci | Michael Forest
Dr. Valgardeni  | Giorgio Cerioni | Edmund Purdom
Sicilia Notte Editor  | Mico Cundari | Gene Luotto
Attorney Alberto Traini-Luis  | Marco Guglielmi | Anthony La Penna
Toruzzo  | Salvatore Moscardini | Nick Alexander
Vincenzo Terrasini  | Renzo Palmer | Robert Sommer
Ugo Selimi  | Elio Zamuto | Ted Rusoff
Commissioner Zamagna  | Gianni Zavota | Edward Mannix
Carmelo Bellolampo  | Vincenzo Norvese | Gene Luotto
Vezzi  | Elio Di Vincenzo

### Additional English Dub Voices

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* Cicely Browne
* Lewis E. Ciannelli
* Mickey Knox
* Gene Luotto
* Robert Spafford

## See also

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* List of Italian films of 1974

## References

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1. ^ Antonio Bruschini, Antonio Tentori. Città violente: il cinema poliziesco italiano. Tarab, 1998.
2. ^ "'How to Kill a Judge' thrills with cerebral, intricate plot Italian mystery has social bent". Washington Times. March 2, 2006. Retrieved 8 February 2012.

## External links

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* How to Kill a Judge at IMDb

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Films directed by Damiano Damiani

* Lipstick (1960)
* Blood Feud (1961)
* Arturo's Island (1962)
* The Reunion (1963)
* The Empty Canvas (1963)
* La strega in amore (1966)
* A Bullet for the General (1967)
* The Day of the Owl (1968)
* A Complicated Girl (1969)
* The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
* Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
* The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971)
* The Assassin of Rome (1972)
* The Devil Is a Woman (1974)
* How to Kill a Judge (1975)
* A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe (1975)
* I Am Afraid (1977)
* Goodbye & Amen (1978)
* A Man on His Knees (1980)
* The Warning (1980)
* Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
* Pizza Connection (1985)
* The Inquiry (1986)
* Massacre Play (1989)
* The Dark Sun (1990)

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