Un posto ideale per uccidere (1971)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Umberto Lenzi

Writers:

Antonio Altoviti (writer)
Lucia Drudi Demby (writer)
(more)

Release Date:

18 August 1971 (Italy)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Pretty Girl | Sex | Female Nudity

Cast

Irene Papas	...	Barbara Slater
Ray Lovelock	...	Dick Butler (as Raymond Lovelock)
Ornella Muti	...	Ingrid Sjoman
Michel Bardinet	...	Baratti
Jacques Stany	...	Official
Umberto D'Orsi
Calisto Calisti	...	Police Inspector
Ugo Adinolfi	...	Gas Station Attendant
Sal Borgese	...	Agostino's Friend (as Salvatore Borgese)
Giuseppe Terranova
Carla Mancini	...	Shop Worker
Umberto Raho	...	Police Inspector
Antonio Mellino	...	Agostino
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tom Felleghy	...	Col. Steve Slater (uncredited)
Franco Ressel	...	Man who buys aural porn (uncredited)

Directed by
Umberto Lenzi

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Antonio Altoviti		writer
Lucia Drudi Demby		writer
Umberto Lenzi		writer

Produced by
Carlo Ponti	....	producer

Original Music by
Bruno Lauzi

Cinematography by
Alfio Contini

Film Editing by
Eugenio Alabiso

Costume Design by
Giovanni Naitano

Production Companies

• Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
• Les Films Concordia

Also Known As:

An Ideal Place to Kill (International: English title)
Dirty Pictures
Oasis of Fear (USA) (dubbed version)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Filming Locations:

Chiasso, Canton Ticino, Switzerland

Company:

Compagnia Cinematografica Champion

The 70s... it wasn't all fun

Another from the Shameless stable of exploitation films. They go on about how they've tracked down missing scenes, remastered it all and redone the soundtrack... it's like a kid telling you how they've done an amazing drawing and you then look at it... Oasis of Fear is a bit, well, rubbish.

It's about a young couple who travel around Europe in a zippy yellow open top sports car flogging porn mags to locals (that dates it). But once the movie settles down it hits you that it's just not very good, a bit amateurish. The trailer is the best thing about it.

It starts off okay with a George Beatle type track, but soon becomes irritating. The bloke, all 29in waist and big hair, is from the Cliff Richard school of acting. Actually Cliff was a bit more charming than this. The girl is alright in a Kate Middleton kind of way. It belongs to an age where you had to make your own entertainment, when you only had Dixon of Dock Green on the black and white telly, while going to the movies to see a big colour film - and a woman get her kit off - was a real treat, real decadence.

You rent these films for a bit of sauce and unPC fun - you don't really expect to be so bored by it all. It picks up for the last half hour, but really drags until then.