Die Nacht der rollenden Köpfe
Originaltitel: Passi di danza su una lama di rasoio
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
5,7/10
865
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA photographer witnesses a murder through a telescope but can't identify the killer. She reports it to police, but other witnesses are found murdered. She may be the next target.A photographer witnesses a murder through a telescope but can't identify the killer. She reports it to police, but other witnesses are found murdered. She may be the next target.A photographer witnesses a murder through a telescope but can't identify the killer. She reports it to police, but other witnesses are found murdered. She may be the next target.
Nieves Navarro
- Kitty
- (as Susan Scott)
Jorge Martín
- Inspector Merughi
- (as George Martin)
Rosita Torosh
- Nina Ferretti
- (as Rosita Toros)
Gianni Pulone
- Fireman
- (as Giovanni Pulone)
Sal Borgese
- Asdrubale Magno
- (as Salvatore Borgese)
Augusto Funari
- Ragazzo Nel Parco
- (Nicht genannt)
Sofia Lusy
- Cleaning Lady
- (Nicht genannt)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesIt is the rare giallo that features more than one brand of cigarettes. Here the dancer smokes Astors, basically to cigarettes what jb is to scotch in these things, while Lidia smokes the rarely seen Lord brand.
- PatzerThe audio goes from one end of the keyboard to the other, back and forth, keys struck in a very percussive manner, while visually Marco's hands and eyes never leave the keys directly in front of him, looking sort of like he's kneading a loaf of bread. And when one hand leaves the keyboard to caress Lidia's face, two hands are still heard playing on the audio.
- Zitate
John in car: [reacting to Kitty's charge for "services"] 100,000! Up your ass!
- Alternative VersionenGerman version was edited for violence to avoid being confiscated & banned, however it did get BPjM indexed though. Only in 2007 was the movie removed from the index list and shortly afterwards the uncut version was granted a FSK-16 rating.
- VerbindungenFeatures Der geheimnisvolle Dritte (1967)
Ausgewählte Rezension
This is a rather mediocre giallo, yet another one co-starring Susan Scott and Simon Andreu; though not a Luciano Ercoli film, it would place somewhere between his two DEATH WALKS titles.
The backdrop for the mystery this time around is a dance academy - hence the original title, which translates to DANCE STEPS ON A RAZOR'S BLADE; the English one, then, refers to the fact that the killer is ostensibly lame. Among its roster of artistically-oriented(!) characters is a photographer (Scott), her special-effects technician boyfriend Robert Hoffman, a musician/producer played by Andreu and Anuska Borova as a scoop-seeking female reporter (who has a twin sister, a former dancer whose colleagues are being brutally murdered!). George Martin(!), who plays the Police Inspector, also co-wrote the script with the director; his face seemed oddly familiar to me but, looking at his filmography on the IMDb, I only recognized the fine Spaghetti Western THE RETURN OF RINGO (1965) - which, incidentally, also featured Scott (under her original Spanish name of Nieves Navarro)!
The film provides plenty of red herrings throughout, but the final revelation is so abruptly presented as to be practically unintelligible! As was the case with THE FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION (1970), Scott is decked out in some horrendous 70s fashions (worst of all an over-sized cap like the one Jack Nicholson - in The Joker's guise - would wear in BATMAN [1989]!). Besides, the film's overall visual style is pretty uninspired (apart from the stalkings, done from the killer's POV), with its eye squarely on the narrative's exploitable elements - witness the numerous wholly gratuitous sex scenes, and even featuring a dance pirouette that culminates in a striptease! The dubbing, too, is among the worst I've had to sit through for this type of film. Roberto Pregadio's score is pretty nice, though - whose main theme, in keeping with the musical elements of the plot, is turned into a recurring motif.
The backdrop for the mystery this time around is a dance academy - hence the original title, which translates to DANCE STEPS ON A RAZOR'S BLADE; the English one, then, refers to the fact that the killer is ostensibly lame. Among its roster of artistically-oriented(!) characters is a photographer (Scott), her special-effects technician boyfriend Robert Hoffman, a musician/producer played by Andreu and Anuska Borova as a scoop-seeking female reporter (who has a twin sister, a former dancer whose colleagues are being brutally murdered!). George Martin(!), who plays the Police Inspector, also co-wrote the script with the director; his face seemed oddly familiar to me but, looking at his filmography on the IMDb, I only recognized the fine Spaghetti Western THE RETURN OF RINGO (1965) - which, incidentally, also featured Scott (under her original Spanish name of Nieves Navarro)!
The film provides plenty of red herrings throughout, but the final revelation is so abruptly presented as to be practically unintelligible! As was the case with THE FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION (1970), Scott is decked out in some horrendous 70s fashions (worst of all an over-sized cap like the one Jack Nicholson - in The Joker's guise - would wear in BATMAN [1989]!). Besides, the film's overall visual style is pretty uninspired (apart from the stalkings, done from the killer's POV), with its eye squarely on the narrative's exploitable elements - witness the numerous wholly gratuitous sex scenes, and even featuring a dance pirouette that culminates in a striptease! The dubbing, too, is among the worst I've had to sit through for this type of film. Roberto Pregadio's score is pretty nice, though - whose main theme, in keeping with the musical elements of the plot, is turned into a recurring motif.
- Bunuel1976
- 6. Juni 2006
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By what name was Die Nacht der rollenden Köpfe (1973) officially released in India in English?
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