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Death Occurred Last Night

Original title: La morte risale a ieri sera
  • 1970
  • TV-14
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
792
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Death Occurred Last Night (1970)
CrimeDramaThriller

A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.

  • Director
    • Duccio Tessari
  • Writers
    • Biagio Proietti
    • Duccio Tessari
    • Giorgio Scerbanenco
  • Stars
    • Raf Vallone
    • Frank Wolff
    • Gabriele Tinti
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    • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    792
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Duccio Tessari
    • Writers
      • Biagio Proietti
      • Duccio Tessari
      • Giorgio Scerbanenco
    • Stars
      • Raf Vallone
      • Frank Wolff
      • Gabriele Tinti
    • 18User reviews
    • 29Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Raf Vallone
    Raf Vallone
    • Amanzio Berzaghi
    Frank Wolff
    Frank Wolff
    • Commissario Duca Lamberti
    Gabriele Tinti
    Gabriele Tinti
    • Mascaranti
    Gillian Bray
    • Donatella Berzaghi
    • (as Gill Bray)
    Eva Renzi
    Eva Renzi
    • Lamberti's wife
    Gigi Rizzi
    • Salvatore
    Beryl Cunningham
    Beryl Cunningham
    • Herrero
    Checco Rissone
    Checco Rissone
    • Ing. Salvarsanti
    Wilma Casagrande
    • Concetta Giarzone
    Marco Mariani
    • Franco Baronia
    Nicky Zuccolà
    Helga Marlo
      Riccardo De Stefanis
      • Mario
      Maria Grazia Bettini
      • Hildegard
      Elsa Boni
      • Erica
      Marisa Cassetta
      • Giselle
      Giorgio Dolfin
      Jack La Cayenne
      • Franco Baronia - l'altro
      • (as Jack La Cayen)
      • Director
        • Duccio Tessari
      • Writers
        • Biagio Proietti
        • Duccio Tessari
        • Giorgio Scerbanenco
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      • Trivia
        This film marked pretty much the end of Eva Renzi's international career. She was known to be rather unpleasant on-set and had therefore left bad impressions on movie sets in England, Hollywood, West-Berlin, France, and Italy. After this film, she found it hard to find any work outside Germany at all.
      • Goofs
        A good cop wouldn't wait till they get to the morgue to tell the obviously distraught father of a murdered child that he needn't have come to ID the body since it was burned beyond recognition, as Lamberti does to Berghazi.
      • Quotes

        Madame: Here, gentlemen, first an aperitif. It stimulates your fantasies. Please! Cheers.

        Commissario Duca Lamberti: Cheers. Here are tickets for the "Show."

        Madame: The "Show" begins promptly, with the most exceptional girls to be found in Milan at the moment: Giselle, French, full of depraved and morbid fantasies. Erica: Her parents were a typical SS couple in charge of a concentration camp. And this is Hildegarde, as bright and dark as the moment she was conceived, as tall as the Carpathians mountains where she grew up.

        Commissario Duca Lamberti: Well, I've always had a thing for tall women.

      • Connections
        Featured in Italian Gangsters (2015)
      • Soundtracks
        I giorni che ci appartengono
        Written by Duccio Tessari and Gianni Ferrio
        Performed by Mina

      User reviews18

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      7/10

      A Good Thriller

      In Lombardia, the widower Amanzio Berzaghi (Raf Vallone) goes to the police station and reports to Police Captain Duca Lamberti (Frank Wolff) and his assistant Mascaranti (Gabriele Tinti) that his daughter Donatella Berzaghi (Gill Bray) was kidnapped for sex trafficking. Then he explains that she is twenty-five-year-old, but intellectually disabled with mentality of a three-year-old child and nymphomaniac. Lambert and Mascaranti meet the former pimp Salvatore (Gigi Rizzi) to get information about the brothels in Milan and go deep in the underworld of sex to discover where Donatella is. Meanwhile her father continues his personal investigation about the fate of his daughter.

      "La morte risale a ieri sera", a.k.a. "Death Occurred Last Night" is a good thriller made in Italy. The plot has flaws, as usual, but the story is consistent and "Hardcore" (1979) has a similar storyline. Raf Vallone has great performance and this unknown film is worthwhile watching. My vote is seven.

      Title (Brazil): "Os Assassinos Só Matam aos Sábados" ("The Killers only Kill on Saturdays")
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      • Release date
        • September 5, 1970 (Italy)
      • Countries of origin
        • Italy
        • West Germany
      • Language
        • Italian
      • Also known as
        • Smrt se desila sinoc
      • Filming locations
        • San Siro Stadium, Milan, Lombardy, Italy(detectives scope crowd for perps)
      • Production companies
        • Lombard Films
        • Slogan Film
        • CCC-Filmkunst
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 38 minutes
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.66 : 1

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