Shadows in an Empty Room (1976)
"Una Magnum Special per Tony Saitta" (original title)

An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal ... See full summary »

Director:

Alberto De Martino

Writers:

Vincenzo Mannino (screenplay), Gianfranco Clerici (screenplay)

Stars:

Stuart Whitman, John Saxon, Martin Landau

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Stuart Whitman	...	Capt. Tony Saitta
John Saxon	...	Sgt. Ned Matthews
Martin Landau	...	Dr. George Tracer
Tisa Farrow	...	Julie Foster
Carole Laure	...	Louise Saitta
Jean LeClerc	...	Robert Tracer (as Jean Leclerc)
Gayle Hunnicutt	...	Margie Cohn
Jean Marchand
Anthony Forrest	...	(as Antony Forest)
Andrée St-Laurent	...	(as Andree St. Laurent)
Peter MacNeill	...	(as Peter Mac Neil)
Julie Wildman
James Tapp
Jérôme Tiberghien	...	(as Jerome Thibergien)
Terence G. Ross	...	(as Terence Ross)

Storyline

An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not everything is what he thought it was.

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Plot Keywords:

revenge | police | sister | magnum handgun | necklace | 

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Taglines:

Enter at your own risk ... for there is no such thing as a truly empty room

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Italy Canada Panama

Language:

French English

Release Date:

9 March 1976 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Strange Shadows in an Empty Room

Filming Locations:

Cinévision, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

CAD 1,500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fida Cinematografica, Security Investment Trust Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Clips of the car chase from this film are used in the Geico commercials "Do dogs chase cats?"

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Goofs

The driver of a car passing by can be seen watching filming as cop walks into sex shop.

User Reviews

One of the all-time-great car chases!

If you as a 1970s filmmaker wanted to spike your latest release, you'd add a wild street chase with all the trimmings, all of which have since become cliches - extras jumping out of the way, close calls with baby buggies, speeding through alleys, ramming stacks of boxes, weaving around stopped buses, becoming airborne on downgrades - but 25 years ago, this was high melodrama, and including such a sequence was sure to sell tickets. And I too sat spellbound through the "Bullitt" and "The French Connection" street-action scenes. But this much-lesser-known film ranks right up there in masterful car-crash choreography. The chase scenes are absolutely stunning.....though the rest of the whodunit plot is rather ordinary, almost like a made-for-television film. (An unforgettable title, though!) If you dig the action genre, seek out "Strange Shadows in an Empty Room".