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Director:
Silvio Amadio
Writer:
Silvio Amadio (writer)
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Release Date:
June 1978 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Mystery | Romance | Thriller more
Tagline:
He kidnapped beautiful women, forcing them to do what he wanted...AND HE WANTED EVERYTHING! more
Plot:
A writer's secretary tries to find her missing friend and uncovers a murder plot. | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Even Venice Looks Drab and Stale - Avoid! more

Cast

  (in credits order)
Farley Granger ... Richard Stuart
Barbara Bouchet ... Greta Franklin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Petar Martinovitch ... Rocco
Dino Mele ... Sandro
Rosalba Neri ... Eleanora Stuart
Umberto Raho ... The Butler
Nino Segurini
Patrizia Viotti ... Sally Reece
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Directed by
Silvio Amadio 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Silvio Amadio  writer

Produced by
Italo Zingarelli .... producer
 
Original Music by
Teo Usuelli 
 
Music Department
Edda Dell'Orso .... soloist (uncredited)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Amuck (USA)
Hot Bed of Sex (UK)
In Search of Pleasure (USA) (informal literal English title)
Leather and Whips (USA)
Replica di un delitto (Italy)
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Runtime:
98 min
Country:
Italy
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:R
Company:
West Films more

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Referenced in The Big Lebowski (1998) more

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4 out of 15 people found the following comment useful:-
Even Venice Looks Drab and Stale - Avoid!, 16 May 2003
Author: david melville (dwingrove@qmuc.ac.uk) from Edinburgh, Scotland



A tacky low-budget (un)dress rehearsal for Paul Schrader's sublime The Comfort of Strangers. A couple of jaded swingers live in a crumbling Venetian palazzo. Having little else to do, they lure unwary strangers into their web of kinky games. Alas, any comparison with Schrader's masterwork ends with the plot. Amuck! is one of those sad films that constantly threaten to intrigue us, but never quite do.

The heroine of this mess is a pert but stupefyingly dull blonde secretary played by Barbara Bouchet. (She looks like a cross between Jerry Hall and Elaine from Ally McBeal.) Hot on the trail of her vanished best friend, she gets a job with that girl's one-time employers. A voyeuristic American writer (Farley Granger) and his bisexual nympho wife (Rosalba Neri).

The key to the mystery is gratingly obvious from the start. The direction is flat and the acting is abysmal, apart from Granger. Incredibly, the camerawork in this film makes even Venice look and drab and stale. No mean feat.

Amuck! does offer some surprisingly full-on lesbian lovemaking between Neri and Bouchet. Also a porno home-movie version of Little Red Riding Hood - good for a giggle in the right circles. Unless either of these sets your pulse a-racing, this is one Venice movie you should cross a thousand canals...to avoid.

David Melville

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