Big Man
★ 5.5 · 1988 · 90m · Action & Adventure · Comedy · Crime
The renowned Insurance International Co. has created an enquiry network, headed by detective Jack Clementi, to defend itself against insurance fraud. Jack has saved the company enormous amounts of money throughout his successful investigations and his bosses are more than willing put up with his brusque manners, his disconcerting frankness, and his intolerance for any form of company bureaucracy. Yet he is a big guy with a huge heart.
Episodes
1. An Unusual Insurance90m · The vice-president of Lloyd’s International, Winterbottom, knowing that the Sicilian mafia has been able to insure some drug shipments, calls Jack Clementi to solve the case. Clementi starts his research in Rome using some information from captain Caruso, an old friend who works for the Criminalpol.
2. The False Etruscan90m · Jack Clementi, reading the newspaper, learns that there is an imitation of the precious Etruscan goldsmith’s masterpiece ‘The laughing girl’. The article says that the piece belongs to the Houston Museum to which the deceased Texan billionaire and collector Jim Carlson donated it. But Jack knows that the precious statuette belongs to the feudal lords of Roccaferro who have kept it for two hundred years in the castles museum, with an insurance guaranty from Lloyd’s for 800,000 sterling pounds.
3. Another Falling Star90m · Former movie star Susy Kaminsky is up to her eyes in gambling debts. She offers her famous jewelry to the owner of the gambling den, but unfortunately the jewels get lost on their way. As if this wasn’t enough, Susan’s personal servant is found death. As the lost cuff links had a big insurance at Lloyd’s International, Jack Clementi is in charge of the investigation. He is thrilled about the idea of working for Susy, even if the case is not so easy to solve.
4. Boomerang90m · Big Man is hired by the manager of Sfnix, a leader business on technological armaments, to track down the criminals who stole the prototype of the the U.S.R., a new radiation beam rifle. The thieves were not able to steal the lethal weapon's computerized tracking system and are now threatening Sfinix with a massacre in order to get it. Feeling that the theft had been planed with the complicity of an employee of the Sfinix, Big Man, together with his good assistant Simon, investigates.
5. Let the Buried Lie90m · Lloyd’s has paid one and a half million pounds to the Carco Security transportation company for the assault of an armored van full of gold ingots. Now, after fifteen years, Lloyd’s hopes to get back the loot by putting a detective after Paul Gaudin, one of the authors of the robbery, who will soon be out of prison. Unfortunately, Gaudin kills another prisoner and gets other twenty years on prison. The firm gives Big Man the case, and with the authorities’ help, he fakes an arrest and ends up in prison.
6. A Policy for Hell90m · Winterbottom calls Big Man at Lloyd’s International headquarters to entrust him a new research. In the last two years, Lloyd’s has been giving premiums for several thousand millions to the families of insured people who have died only a few months after having stipulated their policies. As Jack Clementi reaches Munich, he meets captain Kraus who sets him on the track of a German builder, Merkl, who is in big financial trouble.More Like This
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