Release
The premiere in Italy was in March 15, 1983. Since then, this rarely seen film has become part of the public domain. Because there is no true owner of the footage, scores of bad-quality copies are floating around the market. Some few legitimate copies of the film were released in a mid-1980s VHS by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment under the title Corrupt. Several imprints with the title Cop Killer or Copkiller are poorly made transfers and there has been no official DVD release either; most of the copies in this format are badly edited and sourced from the same VHS that came out in the 1980s.
The film is marketed under various titles, including The Order of Death or Order of Death (mostly in the United Kingdom), Corrupt in USA, Cop Killer or Cop Killers in Europe, Bad Cop Chronicles #2 (from the VHS sleeve) and Corrupt Lieutenant. The latter was devised after 1992 to capitalize on Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, a later, critically acclaimed film also featuring Harvey Keitel.
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