Gli amici di Nick Hezard

Gli amici di Nick Hezard, released in English as Nick the Sting, is a 1976 Italian film directed by Fernando Di Leo. The picture belongs to the wave of Italian crime and adventure cinema of the 1970s, a field in which Di Leo built his reputation. Its international cast is headed by Luc Merenda, alongside American character actor Lee J. Cobb and Gabriele Ferzetti. The ensemble also includes Dagmar Lassander, Luciana Paluzzi, William Berger and Valentina Cortese, among other familiar faces of the period. Written by Alberto Silvestri, the film runs roughly one hundred minutes and was shot in Italian. It circulated abroad under a variety of localized titles in markets such as Germany, Spain and France, reflecting the wide European distribution typical of Italian genre productions of the era.