I Am Afraid - 1977 - 7/10
AKA - Io Ho Paura
The city is reeling from a string of judicial assassinations, and the murder of police.
Inspector Graziano is assigned to bodyguard an old school, honorable judge.
Both are cautious, but keen eyed. Especially after a local murder points to smuggling, then leads to worse.
Italian thriller starts as something akin to a “buddy film” before heading into darker Poliziotteschi territory.
In so many of these stories, everything and everyone is contaminated.
The pervasiveness of dread, of paranoia, builds throughout for Graziano.