Nanni "Mad Dog Murderer" Vitali and four comrades escapes from prison. They seek up the informant who once helped put Mad Dog behind bars, they kill him and kidnap his girlfriend Marisa Mell. Detective Richard Harrison more or less stumbles across the escape and decides to catch Mad Dog again and lock him up once and for all. Somehow he manage to contact Marisa, who's held as hostage in her appartment, and they stage a trap at the airport which Mad Dog plan to rob. But the trap goes wrong and Mad Dog escapes again with another hostage.

The only other Sergio Grieco movie I can remember having seen is Violence For Kicks and that wasn't too hot. This one, on the other side, is a little better. But then again, every movie with Marisa Mell is smoking hot. Though if there's only one reason why you should see Beast With a Gun it's for the psychotic performance by Helmut Berger as Mad Dog. There's nothing funny about this guy at all, he's just evil. A guy who likes to kill. Poor Marisa Mell (best remembered for Danger Diabolik) must have suffered through hell as Mad Dog treats her character like shit, beating and raping her indiscriminately. Luckily Richard Harrison then offers relief as the handsome detective who ultimately disarms Mad Dog and puts him behind bars where he belongs. Needless to say, Beast With a Gun delivers the goods for fans of the genre. Oh, and clips from it are seen in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown.

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