1977 - HIGHWAY RACER, exciting Italian Poliziotteschi film.

In this Italian action film cars go flying through the air, crash into each other and generally create complete mayhem on the streets of Rome.

The who really cares plot involves a police officer out for revenge after his partner is killed in a car chase with some fast driving bad guys. Our cop hero Marco Palma soups up a Ferrari and the film is essentially one crazed car chase after another.

The film is particularly noted for a chase down of all places one of Rome's most famous landmarks "The Spanish Steps." One can only wonder how they got permission for this chase and where in the hell did they put all the tourists, since this Roman attraction is usually loaded with people.

The film lists in its credits Remi Julienne as the stunt coordinator,  Julienne had a long career staging car chases and some amazing stunts.  He was the go to guy when it came to car chase scenes for many years. Incredibly he worked until 2017 and ended up dying of Covid of all things after risking his life behind the wheel for years.

The film was written by Gino Capone, the running time is 105 minutes.