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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) VINTAGE

Directed by Dario Argento

With Michael Brandon, Costanza Spada, Mimsy Farmer, Bud Spencer, Marisa Fabbri, Francine Racette, Oreste Lionello, Fabrizio Moroni

followed, a long time, by a sinister figure, the young Robert Tobias, a drummer in an orchestra, an evening address the unknown and, although unintentionally kills him. Has anyone seen the scene, photographing. Since that time, but do not reach any request for money, Roberto becomes the object of a silent persecution by the mysterious witness, who, in addition to scattered house evidence of his murder, one night even try acting in the shadows, to strangle . The young man confides in his wife Nina, who advises him to leave unnecessarily. Attend the interview, not seen, the maid, who will be slaughtered after a few hours in a park. At this point, Nina is to leave the house while alongside Roberto is Delia, a young relative of his wife. More and more frightened, drummer turns to a detective private, but, now on the verge of truth, is killed. When even Delia, while Robert is away, suffers the same fate, she decides to arm themselves and wait for the murderess trying to hit him too. Tobias will be faced with a bitter truth ...

The most untraceable, the most coveted, the most perverse of the films of Argento. Final chapter of the trilogy of animals, "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" has all the ingredients for the perfect yellow Italian Golden Age: disguises, chases, bloody murders, distorted vocals, obsessions, trauma of the past, people who live should be dead and dead people who should be alive. Among the curiosities: the scene of the murder of the maid of Tobias, set in the Parco del Valentino, is an explicit reference to the same scene in "The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh . The character of God (Bud Spencer) is based on the novel "The Screaming Mimi" from which Silver has made his first film, " The Bird with the Crystal Plumage .



SCENE CLOU




Several thrilling scenes, but all we should mention the fabulous finale, with the discovery by Robert of the meaning of the image impressed on the retina and its Francine Racette recurring nightmare.





DVD

Not one to pay gold. The distribution rights have expired, and nonsotante various bootlegs in circulation, no trace of an original version. Might as well settle for the final pass on TV, Rete 4, back in 1988 ...
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