Due to more than a dozen “bum trips” on set, “Ill Chase Della Morte”unfortunately never made it past this wildly experimental & fluorescent title sequence phase before things faded into the all too common oblivious follies of the film industry. To immerse his cast & crew in the visionary aesthetics for his picture, Williams was rumored to have smuggled some “Yellow Sunshine” straight from sunny Hollywood, Californ-I-A.
Combining the futurism of Death Race 2000 while adding in the captivating car chases a la “Bullet” & “Two-Lane Blacktop”, the film promised to be an exercise in motorized psychedelia. In 1972, infamous Director J.X.Williams had his hand in the Italio-style Poliziotteschi film titled “Ill Chase Della Morte” (“The Chase of Death” as it was to be called in the USA & UK). The once wide open orchestral western scores were now replaced with the driving beats of progressive rock & jazzy electro funk influences like that of GOBLIN, LALO SCHIFFRIN, and CURTIS MAYFIELD. Always fully enamored with American cinema, following the now classic Spaghetti Western genre, Italian filmmakers followed suit with the newly energized “Poliziottecschi” genre of cop exploitation, car-chase style films focused on brutal action & tough leading actors.
After Clint Eastwood completely conquered and rewrote the entire Western genre, Hollywood made its move on to tough guy cop films like Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, and The Equalizer.
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