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Director:
Giuseppe Rosati
Writer:
Giuseppe Rosati (writer)
Release Date:
24 November 1978 (Italy) more
Genre:
Crime more
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User Comments:
Rather a classic crime story than a giallo more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Gloria Guida ... Alice 'Polly' / Miss Renny
Leonard Mann ... Paul De Revere
Joseph Cotten ... Sir Arthur Dundee
Adolfo Celi ... Sir Harold Boyd
Anthony Steel ... Supt. Jeff Hawks
Janet Agren ... Lady Gloria Boyd
Alida Valli ... Lady Clementine De Revere
Franco Ressel ... Sgt. Phillips
Paul Muller ... Gibson
Mario Novelli ... Saboteur (as Antony Freeman)
Elio Stefanizzi
Claudio Gora
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Antonio Maimone
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Perfect Crime (USA) (video title)
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Runtime:
Brazil:90 min | West Germany:87 min (video release)
Country:
Italy
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
CLC more

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1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Rather a classic crime story than a giallo, 10 April 2001
3/10
Author: rundbauchdodo from Zürich, Switzerland

Although this rather lame crime story is labeled as a giallo in most books, it lacks almost everything that makes a giallo a great thriller. This film looks like a classic Agatha-Christie-like murder mystery that came about 12 years too late (would it have been made in the Mid-1960s, it would at least have gone through as a rip-off of the British Miss-Marple-mysteries starring Margaret Rutherford, although no comparable character is delivered here).

The want-to-be British style crime story (almost everybody involved in the film uses English pseudonyms, director Rosati's alias being the most obvious of them all) can't convince at all, except maybe for the illustrous cast of veterans of the Italian giallo/police film genre. The only remarkable scene has Joseph Cotten's character trying to cut out his own pacemaker - which he succeeds in vain because he dies anyway (it's not as gory a scene as it sounds).

All in all rather disappointing (including the final twist). Rosati's own police thrillers of the Mid-1970s are more enjoyable.

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