The Salamander (1981)
The world's most expensive calling card. It will cost you your life.
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.
- Date of release
- 1981-04-25
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (30)
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Thriller, Mystery
- Director
- Peter Zinner
Casting
- Franco Nero — Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci
- Anthony Quinn — Bruno Manzini
- Martin Balsam — Captain Steffanelli
- Claudia Cardinale — Elena Leporello
- Sybil Danning — Lili Anders
- Christopher Lee — Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
- Cleavon Little — Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
- Paul L. Smith — The Surgeon
- John Steiner — Captain Roditi
- Eli Wallach — General Leporello
- Renzo Palmer — Carabinieri Major Giorgione
- Anita Strindberg — Princess Faubiani
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