Sette scialli di seta gialla

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Sette scialli di seta gialla
Giacomo Rossi-Stuart
Umberto Raho
Annabella Incontrera
Shirley Corrigan
CinematographyGuglielmo Mancori
Edited byVincenzo Tomassi
Music byManuel De Sica
Production
company
Distributed byPeppercorn-Wormser Film Enterprises
Release date
  • 12 August 1972 (1972-08-12) (Italy)
Running time
90 min
USA: 96 min
Italy: 95 min
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Sette scialli di seta gialla/ Seven Shawls of Yellow Silk

Giacomo Rossi-Stuart and Umberto Raho
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The film has been cited as being inspired by Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and has been called "entertainingly flamboyant" by one reviewer.[2]

Cast

Plot

Annabella Incontrera, Sylva Koscina, Liliana Pavlo and Shirley Corrigan in a scene from the film

Several fashion models are killed by a murderer who poisons a cat's claws with curare. Each victim is given a shawl as a gift, which is laced with a chemical attracting the cat. The first such victim, Paola, had been in a relationship with a blind composer, Peter Oliver (Anthony Steffen) who overhears a conversation he believes may help him track down the killer. Oliver, aided by his butler Burton (Umberto Raho) tracks the cat to its owner Susan (Jeannette Len), who is murdered before she can reveal who has been using the cat. However, the identity of the killer is eventually discovered to be Françoise (Sylva Koscina), the owner of the studio employing the murdered models. Francoise had killed Paola after discovering that her husband Victor (Giacomo Rossi Stuart) had been having an affair with the young model, and had committed the other murders to help cover up the motive for the first killing.

Production

Production of Sette scialli di seta gialla began on 31 March 1972.

Django spara per primo.[6] The film's title has been noted as one of many giallo titles using either numbers or animal references, having been directly compared to Sette note in nero.[7]

Release

Sette scialli di seta gialla was released on 12 August 1972 in Italy.[2] The title translates as Seven Shawls of Yellow Silk. It has also been distributed under the title Crimes of the Black Cat.[3]

Critical reception

Allmovie gave the film a positive review, calling it "an underrated gem" and one of the most "entertainingly flamboyant" giallo films.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Luther-Smith,Adrian (1999). Blood and Black Lace: The Definitive Guide to Italian Sex and Horror Movies. Stray Cat Publishing Ltd. p. 25
  2. ^
    Allmovie
    . Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  3. ^ a b "BFI | Film & TV Database | Sette scialli di seta gialla". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 15, 2009. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  4. ^ Newman 2011, p. 143.
  5. ^ Marriott 2012, p. 1985.
  6. ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | Django spara per primo | Full credits". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 15, 2009. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  7. ^ Giovannini 1986, pp. 27–28.

References

External links
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