His novel Tuareg was cinematized in 1984 by director Enzo G. Castellari.
Born in Rome, son of director Marino Girolami and brother of director Enzo G. Castellari, Girolami made his film debut at 18 with a role of weight in Fratelli d'Italia by Fausto Saraceni, then appeared in a large number of films, sometimes as main actor, working among others with Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini, Mauro Bolognini and Giuseppe De Santis.
De Masi also scored several action films, such as Enzo G. Castellari's Quel maledetto treno blindato (The Inglorious Bastards), but he is best remembered for his work on spaghetti westerns.
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La via della droga (internationally released as The Heroin Busters and Drug Street) is a 1977 Italian crime film directed by Enzo G. Castellari and starring Fabio Testi, David Hemmings and Sherry Buchanan.
Severin Films released a three-disc set that features a newly remastered transfer of the film, an interview with Quentin Tarantino (the director of the similarly titled but unrelated film Inglourious Basterds) and director Enzo G. Castellari, trailers, a tour of shooting locations, a documentary on the making of the film with interviews with Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, and Enzo G. Castellari, and a CD with the soundtrack.