[3][4] Inspector Verrazzano is joined by the owner of an art gallery, Giulia Medici, who must investigate the death of her brother, whose case was filed a few months earlier as a suicide.

[1] Deadly Chase was the second of two films directed by Franco Prosperi for producer Pino Buricchi in 1978.

[1] The film was shot at Incir de Paolis in Rome and in Nice.

[1] Deadly Chase was distributed theatrically in Italy by Nucleo Star on 8 December 1978.

[1] Italian film historian described this gross as poor, stating that the film was "evidence of Merenda's quick commercial decline as well as that of the genre itself"[1]