Super Fuzz

Super Fuzz (released in Italy as *Poliziotto superpiù* and also known as *Super Snooper*) is a 1980 superhero comedy directed and co-written by Sergio Corbucci. The cast includes Terence Hill, Ernest Borgnine, Marc Lawrence, and Joanne Dru, who appears in her last film. Hill plays Dave Speed, a clumsy Miami cop who acquires superpowers after being accidentally exposed to nuclear radiation.

In the plot, Speed, fresh from the police academy, is sent to issue a parking ticket on a small Native American village in the Florida Everglades. Unbeknownst to him, the U.S. government and NASA are about to fire a nuclear missile loaded with red plutonium into the evacuated village. Speed is hit by the radiation but survives. He returns to civilization, where his story is dismissed by his partner and friend, Sergeant Willy Dunlop.

Speed soon discovers he has gained numerous superpowers: super reflexes, speed, endurance, strength, telekinesis, precognition, intuitive perception, hypnotism, telepathy, and invulnerability. However, his powers fail specifically whenever he sees the color red—the same color he saw during the explosion. Despite this, he uncovers a counterfeit money operation run by a local businessman named Torpedo and his mistress Rosie Labouche, a former actress on whom Dunlop has a crush. An old magician named Silvius, who stumbled onto the scheme, is chased by Torpedo’s henchmen. Speed rescues him and learns from Silvius that his powers are neutralized by the color red.

Speed reveals his secret to Dunlop and Evelyn, Dunlop’s niece and Speed’s girlfriend, but neither is enthusiastic. Dunlop doubts his powers would hold up in court; Evelyn dislikes having a too-perfect partner. One night, Speed and Dunlop go to Torpedo’s clubhouse. Speed uses hypnosis to make Dunlop dance with Rosie while he poses as a corrupt cop. He hypnotizes Torpedo into revealing the location of his printing facility—the fishing trawler *Barracuda*. But Dunlop, trying to impress Rosie, tells her about Speed’s powers and weakness.

Speed and Dunlop head out to sea to find the *Barracuda*. Dunlop boards alone, finds the printing press and fake money, but is knocked out and locked in a freezer. The trawler is sunk to destroy evidence. Back at police headquarters, Speed is arrested on a false accusation by Rosie, who ensures he keeps seeing red to prevent his escape.