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Title: Giallo Essentials - Red Edition
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
EAN: 5027035025919
Genre: Foreign Languages & EFL
Release Date: 21/08/2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: Italy, Czech Republic
Studio: Arrow Video
Language: Italian, English
Subtitle Language: Hard of Hearing English, English
Director: Flavio Mogherni, Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini, Flavio Mogherini
Actor: Ray Milland, Wolfgang Preiss, Ira Furstenberg, Silvia Monti, Franco Nero, Salvo Randone, Pia Lindström, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michele Placido, Peter Baldwin, Valentina Cortese
Rating: 18
No Of Discs: 3
Run Time: 280 minutes
Region Code: Region B
MPN: FCD2431
Description: Alongside the spaghetti western, the giallo is one of the most famous Italian export genres: films steeped in mystery and intrigue, delivered with stylized violence and unforgettable musical themes. The Possessed (1965) masterfully combines noir, mystery and giallo tropes in a proto-giallo based on one of Italy's most notorious crimes. It tells the story of a depressed novelist (Peter Baldwin) in search of his old flame (Virna Lisi) who has disappeared under suspicious circumstances, prompting an investigation that finds him plunged into a disturbing drama of familial secrets, perversion, madness and murder. The Fifth Cord (1971) boasts a complex, Agatha Christie-esque plot of investigation into a series of brutal assaults. As the body count rises, whisky swilling journalist Andrea Bild (Franco Nero) finds himself under suspicion, making it all the more imperative he crack the case. The Pyjama Girl Case (1978), inspired by a real-life case that baffles to this day, takes us to Australia, where former inspector Timpson comes out of retirement to crack the case of a young woman, found on the beach, shot in the head, burned to hide her identity and dressed in distinctive yellow pyjamas...
Release Year: 2023

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