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

Tiffany Bolling and Keir Dullea were offered major roles.

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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

Give me one more chase please!!!!!

There are 2 respected movies in the euro police movies that always shine above all the other great ones, the first one is in Fernando De Leo "La Mala Ordina", Part of his Milan trilogy films, with his extreme and fast paced chase that never let go and just keeps on going till the last brutal finish. The second one is blazing magnum's, which can be a very good lesson to all the action directors out there planing to do a one good chase sequence. There are 2 chases here, one in the beginning which is short but very efficient , and the second at the end, which you must see to believe, it got everything in it and more. I do urge you, the fans of this type of cinema to grab Blazing Magnumes if only for the chases that prove that you can do a bad acting movie with a simple thriller script, that still got some hard hitting sequences that shine overall. I can't finish without mentioning that the music is also a masterpiece in itself and it is always there at the right moment. If only Dark Sky/NoShame/Blue Underground or any other respected label will do us a favor and release a collector edition DVD, that would be fantastic!