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Don't Torture a Duckling
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Maciara
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Patrizia
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Andrea Martelli
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Dona Aurelia Avallone
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Marc Porel | ... |
Don Alberto Avallone
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Georges Wilson | ... |
Francesco
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Antonello Campodifiori | ... |
Police Lieutenant
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Ugo D'Alessio | ... |
Captain Modesti
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Virgilio Gazzolo | ... |
Police Commissioner
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Vito Passeri | ... |
Giuseppe Barra
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Rosalia Maggio | ... |
Mrs. Spriano - Michele's mother
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Andrea Aureli | ... |
Mr. Lo Cascio, Bruno's father
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Linda Sini | ... |
Mrs. Lo Cascio, Bruno's mother
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Franco Balducci | ... |
Mr. Spriano, Michele's father
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Plot Synopsis
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A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.
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Country:
ItalyLanguage:
ItalianRelease Date:
29 September 1972 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
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Composed by Jaja Fiastri and Riz Ortolani
Performed by Ornella Vanoni
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Composer Riz Ortolani reused a small segment of music from this film in his later composition for Cannibal Holocaust. See more »Soundtracks
"Quei giorni insieme a te"Composed by Jaja Fiastri and Riz Ortolani
Performed by Ornella Vanoni
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I really enjoyed this film although I have only had a chance to watch it once. It's a great Giallo IMO and just as enjoyable as Fulci's later films. The direction was perhaps a bit rough around the edges but on the whole I thought the film worked really well and the ending was great (a real cliff hanger!). I thought one scene was particularly disturbing when the locals beat the hell out of a poor women while the radio played in the background. The inappropriate music made the images even harder to swallow but also gave the scene an emotional punch uncommon in a Fulci movie. I also felt that the story worked coherently and that the twist at the end was great. Fulci obviously has a rather low opinion of rural Italy's inhabitants because in this film all the villagers are presented as simpletons prone to mass-hysteria who live by their own backward laws (illustrated by the remorseless killing of the women) and religious beliefs.