Crime in via Teulada was originally broadcast in 1979 on television as 15 segments of 5-minutes each. It was called Striped Mystery and the show aired before RAI's Variety. It was an attempt to mix reality and the world of the movie, as it was also shot at RAI's studios in Rome. The original version was called Giallo A Striscio.
In 1980, it was released in theaters as a 61 minute long movie.
The huge Rai building is filled with activity as so many shows are being made, including a crime film, a historical drama, a musical program called Discoring and the variety show Domenica In. In the midst of all this craziness, an actress named Diamante (Mariarita Viaggi) is killed and one of the RAI employees, Ely (Margherita Sestito), finds the body where film reels are stored. When security comes to help her, the body is gone.
Two of Ely's co-workers, blind switchboard operator Lia (Auretta Gay) and production assistant Sandro (Pietro Brambilla), take over the case when a dancer named Annie (Barbara D'Urso) are murdered and - spoiler warning - Ely are killed. There are also some actors playing themselves, such as Pippo Baudo, Domenico Modugno, Nanni Loy, Filippo Albertazzi, the Tessler Twins, Renato Rascel and Corinne Clery wandering about and anyone could be killed next. Everything seems to point to an actor named Enrico (Branko Vatovec), who is also Lia's brother, but the killer really could be anybody. And by that, I mean someone with ties to all of the victims from their past.
Director and co-writer - with Amedeo Pagani - Alan Lado made some really interesting giallo in the past, such as Short Night of Glass Dolls and Who Saw Her Die? He also made the Star Wars ripoff The Humanoid and Last Stop On the Night Train.
It also has a soundtrack by Fabio Frizzi that uses some of the music from The Gates of Hell.
It's pretty fun with people getting turned into silver statues and an axe carrying giallo murderer. There's even a dummy drop early in the movie!
In 1980, it was released in theaters as a 61 minute long movie.
The huge Rai building is filled with activity as so many shows are being made, including a crime film, a historical drama, a musical program called Discoring and the variety show Domenica In. In the midst of all this craziness, an actress named Diamante (Mariarita Viaggi) is killed and one of the RAI employees, Ely (Margherita Sestito), finds the body where film reels are stored. When security comes to help her, the body is gone.
Two of Ely's co-workers, blind switchboard operator Lia (Auretta Gay) and production assistant Sandro (Pietro Brambilla), take over the case when a dancer named Annie (Barbara D'Urso) are murdered and - spoiler warning - Ely are killed. There are also some actors playing themselves, such as Pippo Baudo, Domenico Modugno, Nanni Loy, Filippo Albertazzi, the Tessler Twins, Renato Rascel and Corinne Clery wandering about and anyone could be killed next. Everything seems to point to an actor named Enrico (Branko Vatovec), who is also Lia's brother, but the killer really could be anybody. And by that, I mean someone with ties to all of the victims from their past.
Director and co-writer - with Amedeo Pagani - Alan Lado made some really interesting giallo in the past, such as Short Night of Glass Dolls and Who Saw Her Die? He also made the Star Wars ripoff The Humanoid and Last Stop On the Night Train.
It also has a soundtrack by Fabio Frizzi that uses some of the music from The Gates of Hell.
It's pretty fun with people getting turned into silver statues and an axe carrying giallo murderer. There's even a dummy drop early in the movie!