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| Year: | 1971 |
| Country of origin: | Italy |
| Director: | Dario Argento |
| Genre: | Hum drum Giallo |
| Starring: | James Franciscus, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065761/ |
| Tagline: | Caught between the truth and a murderer's hand! |
| Favourite line: | N/A - Subtitled |
Following the success of Argento's Giallo debut, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, he returns to familiar territory once more.
The plot. A blind old man, a retired journalist, lives with his young niece, where he creates crossword puzzles for some pocket money. Out for a walk, the old man overhears a suspicious conversation from a car parked outside a medical research centre and, when a guard is killed at the institute, he decides to contact a currently working journalist.
So begins an investigation that will risk the life of the old man, the journalist and the young niece.
And it's fairly standard stuff, Argento not yet having truly mastered his craft, mainly evidenced by some slack pacing which gives the movie a slightly plodding feel. Far from Argento's best, but still with the odd glimmer of the greatness to come, this is for Argento completists only, I suspect.
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