Rabid Dogs

Rabid Dogs is an Italian film directed by Mario Bava. It was made in 1974 but the film was seized by the courts during the final stages of production when the producer went bankrupt after the main investor in the film died in a car crash. It was not released until 1998.

Four ruthless criminals wait outside the gates of a pharmaceutical company to steal the pay wages from an armored truck which will arrive at the gated complex. Upon the trucks arrival, the heavily armed thieves hold up the truck, killing a number of people in the process. But during the getaway, the thieves car is riddled with bullets from the companys security guards which kill the getaway driver, and damage the car so that its leaking fuel. The cleancut, cunning leader of the group, known only as Doc Maurice Poli, and his two vicious and scruffy cohorts, the knifewielding Blade Aldo Caponi and the hulking sevenfoot tall ThirtyTwo Luigi Montefiori are overjoyed at the stolen cash they now have. But when their car stalls in a downtown part of Rome, they are forced to flee on foot into an underground car park, pursued by the police. The criminals grab two women as hostages, and when Blade accidentally kills one, the police, seeing the other female hostage Maria Lea Lander in danger, back away, allowing the criminals to steal her car and make an escape from the car park.Back on the street, Doc knows that its only a matter of time before a description of their new getaway car reach the authorities, which will make it impossible for them to get out of the city. But the situation is resolved when they stop at a red traffic light by hijacking the car in front of them. The middleaged driver of the other car, Riccardo Riccardo Cucciolla protests that he has to get his young child, a small, deathlypale little boy wrapped up in a blanket, to the hospital. But the criminals, plus their female hostage Maria, force Riccardo to drive them out of the city. ........

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