While lacking some of the exploitation panache in which the poliziotteschi revels, CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE CAPTAIN is an appropriately pulpy dive into the seedy, blood-soaked streets of ‘70s Italy amid a rash of violent crime in the years following an economic boom. A storied police captain and his naive district attorney butt heads when the attorney starts to pull the threads connecting the captain to a local crime boss-slash-construction magnate. The truth comes to light faster than you’d think in this plotty tale, leaving a back half dedicated to exploring the depths of corruption, the relative limits of justice, and the line where morals and action meet. - Get tickets to POLIZIOTTESCHI: ITALIAN CRIME FILMS IN THE YEARS OF LEAD (Feb. 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/poliziotteschi-italian-crime-films-in-the-years-of-lead/ - “Some disorganized thoughts about poliziotteschi films” by John Moret for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/02/06/some-disorganized-thoughts-about-poliziotteschi-films-from-the-trylon-programmer/ - “The Best Cop Movies You’ve Never Heard Of: ‘Poliziotteschi’ Films Get Their Due” at IndieWire: https://www.indiewire.com/2014/06/the-best-cop-movies-youve-never-heard-of-poliziotteschi-films-get-their-due-25140/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music by Rito Ortolani from the CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE CAPTAIN soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 214: CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE CAPTAIN (1971) 5:27 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:02 - Thoughts on the poliziotteschi form and the place of CONFESSIONS within it 20:13 - The scene where the movie’s primary tension becomes procedural 29:08 - The second act and fleshing out ideologies through Traini and Bonavia 43:54 - The late fridging of Serena 54:06 - The climax 1:06:52 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:12:04 - Cody’s Noteys: Martin’s Smartins
