The Salamander (1981)
The world's most expensive calling card. It will cost you your life.
103 min
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the government.
- Release date
- June 28, 1985
- Country of origin
- Italy, United Kingdom
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Cast
- Franco Nero as Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci
- Anthony Quinn as Bruno Manzini
- Martin Balsam as Captain Steffanelli
- Claudia Cardinale as Elena Leporello
- Sybil Danning as Lili Anders
- Christopher Lee as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
- Cleavon Little as Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
- Paul L. Smith as The Surgeon
- John Steiner as Captain Roditi
- Eli Wallach as General Leporello
- Renzo Palmer as Carabinieri Major Giorgione
- Anita Strindberg as Princess Faubiani
- Marino Masé as Captain Rigoli
- Jacques Herlin as Woodpecker
- Fortunato Arena as General Pantaleone
- John Stacy as Concierge
- Andrea Esterhazy as Minister of Defense
- Larry Dolgin as Captain Roditi (voice) (uncredited)
- Omero Capanna as Hitman (uncredited)
- Attilio Dottesio as Party Guest of Manzini's (uncredited)
- Tom Felleghy as Man at Funeral (uncredited)
- Margherita Horowitz as Wife of Minister of Defense (uncredited)
- Nello Pazzafini as Manzini's Bodyguard (uncredited)
Crew
- Peter Zinner · Director
- Robert Katz · Writer
- Rod Serling · Writer
- Morris West · Writer
- Erwin C. Dietrich · Producer
- Lew Grade · Producer
- Paul Maslansky · Producer
- Jerry Goldsmith · Composer
- Marcello Gatti · Cinematographer
- Claudio M. Cutry · Editor