The Flower with the Deadly Sting

Original title: Il fiore dai petali d'acciaio

1973
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

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Carroll Baker, Gianni Garko, and Ivano Staccioli in The Flower with the Deadly Sting (1973)

Horror Mystery Thriller

A wealthy doctor Andrea Valenti (Gianni Garko) accidentally kills his mistress, then the doctor falls victim of blackmail.A wealthy doctor Andrea Valenti (Gianni Garko) accidentally kills his mistress, then the doctor falls victim of blackmail.A wealthy doctor Andrea Valenti (Gianni Garko) accidentally kills his mistress, then the doctor falls victim of blackmail.

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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

313

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Doctor drives a Mercedes and drinks J&B scotch.

Goofs
Though the sisters's are named Graffi on the cast-list, the detective refers to them as "Gherardi".

Quotes
Dr. Andrea Valenti: ill give you a vitamin shot so you can be ready for your wife.
Hospital patient: My wife! No! Anything but that! Not even if they paid me! I'd rather "play the pipe!"
[with hand gestures, indicates fingering a pipe to suggest masturbation]

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Featured review

7/10

decent giallo...remains hard to see

Sep 22

So we have here a pretty decent giallo, which remains very hard to get hold of, so i am surprised its got as many reviews as it has.

Depending on how you are watching it, it clearly has several titles, its on imdb as "Flowers With A Deadly Sting", i know it as " Flowers With The Petal Of Steel".

Perhaps i would find it a bit better if i could see it top quality, but as it stands its a decent giallo but not a great one, and i have only seen it about half dozen times, which is well below what i watch my favourite gialli.

Plenty of faces you have seen before in gialli and as pointed out by others the end does come as something of a surprise.

If you can get it and you are a giallo fan then of course its a must watch, but its definitely a middle of the road giallo for me.

My rating for this one is 7.5 out of 10.