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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Original title: L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
  • 19701970
  • GPGP
  • 1h 36m
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
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An American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer, h... Read allAn American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer, he conducts his own investigation.An American expatriate in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer, he conducts his own investigation.
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    • Director
      • Dario Argento
    • Writers
      • Dario Argento
      • Fredric Brown(novel "The Screaming Mimi")
    • Stars
      • Tony Musante
      • Suzy Kendall
      • Enrico Maria Salerno
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Dario Argento
    • Writers
      • Dario Argento
      • Fredric Brown(novel "The Screaming Mimi")
    • Stars
      • Tony Musante
      • Suzy Kendall
      • Enrico Maria Salerno
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 131User reviews
    • 151Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination

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    Tony Musante
    Tony Musante
    • Sam Dalmas
    Suzy Kendall
    Suzy Kendall
    • Julia
    Enrico Maria Salerno
    Enrico Maria Salerno
    • Inspector Morosini
    Eva Renzi
    Eva Renzi
    • Monica Ranieri
    Umberto Raho
    Umberto Raho
    • Alberto Ranieri
    Renato Romano
    Renato Romano
    • Professor Carlo Dover
    • (as Raf Valenti)
    Giuseppe Castellano
    Giuseppe Castellano
    • Monti
    Mario Adorf
    Mario Adorf
    • Berto Consalvi
    Pino Patti
    Pino Patti
    • Faiena
    Gildo Di Marco
    • Garullo
    Rosita Torosh
    Rosita Torosh
    • 4th Victim
    • (as Rosa Toros)
    Omar Bonaro
    • Police Detective
    Fulvio Mingozzi
    • Police Detective
    Werner Peters
    Werner Peters
    • Antique Dealer
    Karen Valenti
    Karen Valenti
    • Tina, 5th Victim
    Carla Mancini
    Carla Mancini
    • Girl watching TV
    Bruno Erba
    • Police Detective
    Dario Argento
    Dario Argento
    • Murderer's Hands
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Dario Argento
    • Writers
      • Dario Argento
      • Fredric Brown(novel "The Screaming Mimi") (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      Tony Musante was a very intense actor and It's alleged he would frequently show up at Dario Argento's apartment at 3am to discuss characterization, much to Argento's annoyance.
    • Goofs
      When pursuing the hit man "Needles", Sam describes him to a hotel bellboy as wearing a yellow jacket and a blue cap. At no point is Needles seen wearing a blue cap, although he does manage to shake off his pursuer by mingling with a group of people wearing such a uniform. However, Sam only sees them after giving the description.
    • Quotes

      Inspector Morosini: Right! Bring in the perverts!

    • Alternate versions
      West German theatrical version was cut by ca. 10 minutes (plot scenes). For TV broadcasting these scenes were reinserted but the violent scenes were trimmed instead.
    • Connections
      Edited into Tales of the Cat (2001)

    User reviews131

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    A new phase in the Italian horror movie.
    Dario Argento ,in the Italian horror movie field is second to none,with the eventual exception of Mario Bava.The young generations ,as I wrote in my "profondo rosso" review,do not know,have no idea that he was slagged off by the "earnest" "intellectual " critics for years before they realized he was actually a genuine auteur.

    "Ucello" was to the Italian horror cinema what "Rosemary's baby" was to the American one.By combining Bava's stunning lighting effects with Hitchcock's sense of space and of suspense,Argento created a genre I would depict as "horror opera".Although it's not his first work,it's the one which asserted his skill.

    Hitchcock comes to mind when the hero (Musante) sees a murder in a room he cannot enter.Here the sentence "there's more to the picture than meets the eye" perfectly describes the extraordinary first scene.

    Argento's geometry is non -Euclidian,no one used the setting as he did :the lighthouse in this film,the houses in "inferno" ,the corridors in "suspiria" ,the list is endless.

    And most of all, when contemporary screenplays take barely two or three pages,Argento's stories,even if they are full of implausibilities , grab the audience,take them into a maze ,where they lose themselves with delight.The stories have their own logic,never the viewer feels disappointed when the solution is revealed.

    You are not a true horror movies buff if you do not know Argento's best works (roughly the sixties thru the eighties)
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    • Release date
      • June 12, 1970 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • West Germany
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Point of Terror
    • Filming locations
      • Agnano, Naples, Campania, Italy
    • Production companies
      • Seda Spettacoli
      • Central Cinema Company Film (CCC)
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    • Budget
      • $500,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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