La ragazza dal pigiama giallo (1977)

Director:

Flavio Mogherini

Writers:

Flavio Mogherini (writer)
Rafael Sánchez Campoy (writer)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach...

Plot Keywords:

Inspector | Murder | Sexual Attraction | Naked Dead Woman | Sensuality

Cast

Ray Milland	...	Inspector Thompson
Dalila Di Lazzaro	...	Glenda Blythe
Michele Placido	...	Antonio Attolini
Mel Ferrer	...	Professor Henry Douglas
Howard Ross	...	Roy Conner
Ramiro Oliveros	...	Inspector Ramsey
Rod Mullinar	...	Inspector Morris
Giacomo Assandri	...	Quint
Eugene Walter	...	Dorsey
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Antonio Ferrandis	...	Nottingham (as Antonio Ferrandiz)
Vanessa Vitale	...	Evelina
Mónica Rey	...	Patricia Clark Dorsey
Andrea Gnecco
Sandra Dobrigna

Also Known As:

La chica del pijama amarillo (Spain)
The Girl in the Yellow Pajamas
The Pyjama Girl Case

Runtime:

Australia:98 min

Country:

Italy | Spain

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Spain:18 | Iceland:16 | Germany:16 | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Dear Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Zodiac Produzioni

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Pyjama Girl Mystery: A True Story of Murder, Obsession and Lies (2006) (V)

lesser giallo but with some ambition and memorable scenes

A little girl in Australia finds a dead woman wearing yellow pajamas on a beach, whose head has been badly disfigured or burnt. The police have no idea who she is. Scenes alternate between the police investigation storyline, and scenes from the life of a woman who has a number of different men in her life. How the latter scenes fit in doesn't become clear (or didn't for me) until fairly far into the movie. In fact, I think the other user misunderstood who she was.

This is a fair giallo, but something that really hurt it for me was that there were so many characters who weren't really well identified. From scene to scene I often wasn't sure if I was meeting someone new, or someone from a previous scene.

It isn't without some interest. One memorable scene was when the police put the body into a glass case and put it on public display in an attempt to find someone who could identify her!

Perhaps it was just a flaw in my copy, but it seemed like some short scenes or shots were tinted different colors. There are other scenes where there are clearly intentional changes in colored lights, as when there is an advertising sign just outside a window.