Syndicate Sadists, also known as Rambo's Revenge and One Just Man (in original Italian, Il Giustiziere sfida la città) is a 1975

1975 in film

The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....

 poliziotteschi

Poliziotteschi

Poliziotteschi films constitute a sub-genre of crime and action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s...

film. This film by Umberto Lenzi

Umberto Lenzi

Umberto Lenzi , is an Italian film director who was very active in low budget crime films, peplums, spaghetti westerns, war movies, cannibal films and giallo murder mysteries ....

 was one of the director's many work in the crime thriller genre. It stars Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cheshire Cotten was an American actor of stage and film. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair...

 and Tomas Milian

Tomas Milian

Tomás Milián is a Cuban-American actor best known for having worked extensively in Italian films from the late 1950s to the 1980s.-Career in Italy:...

.

Plot

Milian plays Rambo, an ex-cop who seeks revenge against two powerful crime families who were responsible for the murder of his friend. The protagonist's name may startle some movie aficionados, who will readily notice how the release of the movie actually predates Ted Kotcheff

Ted Kotcheff

Ted Kotcheff , sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff, is a Canadian film and television director, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as First Blood.-Early life:Kotcheff was born William...

's First Blood. Tomas Milian happened to read David Morrell

David Morrell

David Morrell is a Canadian-American novelist, best known for his debut 1972 novel First Blood, which would later become the successful Rambo film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. He has written 28 novels, and his work has been translated into 26 languages...

's novel while flying from the U.S. to Rome. Loving the story he tried to talk some Italian producers in making a movie out of it, with him starring as John Rambo

John Rambo

John Rambo is an iconic fictional character and the basis of the Rambo saga. He first appeared in the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morrell, but later became more famous in the film series, played by Sylvester Stallone...

. In one of moviedom's many bad decisions nothing came out of it, so he was allowed to use the Rambo moniker in the next poliziottesco he starred in.