How to Kill a Judge
Directed by	Damiano Damiani
Written by	Damiano Damiani Enrico Ribulsi Fulvio Gicca Palli
Produced by	Mario Cecchi Gori
Starring	Franco Nero
Cinematography	Mario Vulpiani
Edited by	Antonio Siciliano
Music by	Riz Ortolani
Release date	1974 (1974)
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

How to Kill a Judge (Italian: Perché si uccide un magistrato), also known as The Murder of a Magistrate and Why Does One Kill a Magistrate?, is a 1974 Italian crime-thriller film directed by Damiano Damiani. It is the final chapter in the Damiani's trilogy about mafia, after The Day of the Owl and Confessions of a Police Captain.^[1]

It was released on DVD by Blue Underground in March 2006.^[2]

Plot

Giacomo Solaris is a film-maker whose latest released feature film is a crime thriller about a judge who gets too friendly with the Mafia and is murdered. A resentful Sicilian magistrate orders the film seized, but then the judge winds up dead, in a fashion just like that in Solaris's movie. Solaris realizes that corrupt political forces are pulling strings and attempting to cover up murders of his friends who begin to die in grisly ways. Will he learn the truth about the murder of the judge in time?

Cast

The film was dubbed into English with voice actors based within Italy, with Franco being the sole actor to reprise his role and dub himself over in English.

Additional English Dub Voices

• Cicely Browne
• Lewis E. Ciannelli
• Mickey Knox
• Gene Luotto
• Robert Spafford