Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man

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| image = Live-like-a-cop-die-like-a-man.jpg

| caption = Italian film poster for Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man

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| director = Ruggero Deodato

| producer = {{plainlist|

Alberto Marras
Vincenzo Salviani}}

| screenplay = Fernando Di Leo

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Fernando Di Leo
Alberto Marras
Vincenzo Salviani}}

| starring = Marc Porel
Ray Lovelock

| music = Ubaldo Continiello

| cinematography = Guglielmo Mancori

| editing = Gianfranco Simoncelli

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| released = {{Film date|df=y|1976|03|11|Italy}}

| runtime = 100 minutes

| country = Italy

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| gross = ₤741 million

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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man ({{langx|it|Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore}}) is a 1976 Italian poliziotteschi crime film, directed by Ruggero Deodato and starring Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/146480/Uomini-si-nasce-poliziotti-si-muore/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026220715/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/146480/Uomini-si-nasce-poliziotti-si-muore/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 October 2009 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2009 |title=Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man |access-date=31 August 2008}}

Cast

Marc Porel as Fred
Ray Lovelock as Tony
Adolfo Celi as The Boss
Franco Citti as Rudy Ruginski
Silvia Dionisio as Norma
Marino Masé as Rick Conti
Renato Salvatori as Roberto Pasquini, a.k.a. Bibi
Sergio Ammirata as Sergeant
Bruno Corazzari as Morandi
Daniele Dublino as Corrupt police inspector
Sofia Dionisio as Lina Pasquini (credited as "Flavia Fabiani")
Tom Felleghy as Major
Margherita Horowitz as Mona, a hostage woman
Gina Mascetti as Maricca
Marcello Monti as 3rd kidnapper
Claudio Nicastro as Commissioner
Gino Pagnani as Paul, the dog trainer
Enzo Pulcrano as Mario, Pasquini's henchman
Alvaro Vitali as Concierge at Pasquini's building

Production

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man was based on a screenplay by Fernando Di Leo, originally titled Poliziotti si nasce poliziotti si muore (Born a Cop, Die a Cop). The film was director Ruggero Deodato's only film in the poliziotteschi genre.

Release

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man was released on 11 March 1976.Curti, 2013. p. 181 It has grossed 741,142,540 lira domestically. The film was censored on its initial release in Italy. The cut scene involved a scene with Renato Salvatori's character Bibi who has his men gouge out the eyes of a thug played by Bruno Corazzari, and then crush the eyeball under his feet.