Five Dolls for an August Moon

Original title: 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto

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1h 22min

An industrialist invites his colleagues and their wives to relax on his private island so they can exploit the monetary value of one of the guests' revolutionary resin formula, but a killer ... Read allAn industrialist invites his colleagues and their wives to relax on his private island so they can exploit the monetary value of one of the guests' revolutionary resin formula, but a killer within the group disrupts the proceedings.An industrialist invites his colleagues and their wives to relax on his private island so they can exploit the monetary value of one of the guests' revolutionary resin formula, but a killer within the group disrupts the proceedings.

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Director
- Mario Bava
Writers
- Mario di Nardo(story and screenplay)
- Mario Bava(additional material)
- Agatha Christie(novel "And Then There Were None")
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Awards
- 1 win

Helena Ronee in 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto (1970)

Edith Meloni and Ira von Fürstenberg in 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto (1970)

William Berger and Edwige Fenech in 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto (1970)

Edwige Fenech and Maurice Poli in 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto (1970)

William Berger in 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto (1970)

Ira von Fürstenberg in 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto (1970)

Ely Galleani in 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto (1970)

Edwige Fenech in 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto (1970)

Director
- Mario Bava
Writers
- Mario di Nardo(story and screenplay)
- Mario Bava(additional material) (uncredited)
- Agatha Christie(novel "And Then There Were None") (uncredited)
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George Stark is a wealthy industrialist who invites five business friends of his to his remote Mediterranean island for a weekend of relaxation and business when he introduces them to Professor Farrell, a brilliant chemist who gives investment ideas to the group. But against Farrell's wishes, the group goes behind each other's back to obtain information on Farrell's chemistry ideas and soon the guests and residents start turning up dead one by one as Stark and Farrell must rally the group together to determine the identity of the killer (or killers) despite nobody trusting anyone. —matt-282

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Taglines
- Island of terror!
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Certificate
- Not Rated
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Trivia
Agatha Christie's original story was titled "Ten Little Niggers", which had previously been filmed under such official titles as And Then There Were None (1945) and Ten Little Indians (1965). The source of the story went uncredited. Mario Bava did not care for that story, but his next feature, Ecologia del delitto (1971), was practically a rewrite, on which he enjoyed total control.

Goofs
At 66 minutes, a crew member can be seen holding the mirror that is causing the sun's reflection.

Quotes
Nick Chaney: So what was I telling you?
Marie Chaney: That I'm a dirty whore. That's why I'm taking a shower... at least now I'll be a clean whore.

Connections
Referenced in L'Esorcismo di Lisa (2004)

Soundtracks
Five Dolls
Written by Piero Umiliani
Performed by Cantori Moderni Di Alessandroni
Courtesy of Disco Cinevox Records

Top review

An incomprehensible but sporadically beautiful mess

Art direction and cinematography are as distinctive as any of Bava's other giallo films of the period, but the garbled script to what is essentially little more than a standard body-count movie really lets this one down. After a plodding and talky start, the film disintegrates into a total mess. Bava pulls off the odd visual flourish, but such scenes never gel together. Still, the mesmeric use of zooms, focus pulls, and tracking shots and the stylish use of colour ensures that, from an entirely aesthetic perspective, this film never becomes boring, and as an auteur piece, is well worth a watch. Now, if only I could work out what the hell happened in it...

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