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An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.
Conchita Airoldi
- Carol Brandt
- (as Cristina Airoldi)
Manuel Gil
- Dr. Arbe
- (as Manuel Gill)
Anne Pouchie
- Victim in the shower
- (as Pouchie)
Letizia Lehir
- Killed prostitute
- (uncredited)
Giuseppe Marrocco
- Neighbor
- (uncredited)
Francesco Narducci
- Police Photographer
- (uncredited)
Oscar Sciamanna
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe film was refused a UK cinema certificate in 1971 and passed uncut for DVD in 2011.
- GoofsWhen Julie hears the bellboy knock at the apartment door, she puts on a blue bathrobe without a belt. When she looks through the peephole to see who it is, she is wearing the same bathrobe, but as soon as she opens the door the robe has suddenly acquired a belt.
- Quotes
George Corro: My specialty is courting ladies in the presence of their husbands.
- Crazy credits"The very fact that the commandment says "do not kill" makes us aware and convinced that we are descended from an unbroken chain of generations of assassins, for whom the love of murder was in their blood, as it is perhaps in ours." - Sigmund Freud
- Alternate versionsThis was released at least twice on VHS in the United States. The version called Next Victim (box claims it runs 87 minutes) is quite different than the version released as Blade of The Ripper (box claims it runs 83 minutes). The film was shot in widescreen 2:35 and neither is letterboxed. The version released as Next Victim has had all of the nudity edited out of it. Blade of the Ripper has had the opening titles and several other sequences removed entirely, which accounts for the short running time.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Through the Keyhole: An Interview with Sergio Martino (2015)
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Among the best in my opinion
Sergio Martino's "Lo Strano vizio della Signora Wardh" (1970) is a welcome addition to the list of giallos that had remained long unseen for me. Martino has done some of the most interesting of the 70's exploitation cinema (like "Torso" and "Mountain of the Cannibal God") and also an interesting spaghetti western "Mannaja." The giallo hasn't as hard-to-follow and confusing plot as it could have, there are not too many characters which makes their efforts and plot turns easy to follow. The story is simple and involves strange murders closely related to beautiful Wardh lady. There are some masterfully constructed mystery / giallo segments that look no less ambitious than those of Dario Argento. I mean mostly the garage scene and the "gas" scene near the end. These build the suspense well and involve the audience much better than some of the more gore-oriented works of the genre. Martino's film has also some stylish and violent murders but fortunately he didn't concentrate only on them. The locations are simply stunning, and the end twist is surprising and certainly original in my opinion. I think this is among the best of the giallo genre, on the same level with Mario Bava's "Blood and Black Lace", the films by Argento and Tonino Valerii's "My Dear Killer", for example, to name just a few.
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- Bogey Man
- Dec 28, 2004
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971) officially released in India in English?
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