The Cat-o\'-nine-tails

the Cat-o'-nine-tails ( It Gatto has nove code ) is a film free-germano-Italian carried out by Dario Argento, left in 1971.

Second feature-length film of the Italian realizer, it belongs to the animalist trilogy also made up of the Bird with the plumage of crystal and Four gray velvet flies .

Synopsis

The guard of an institute specialized in research Génétique is assassinated. The journalist Carlo Giordani, helped of a blind man, carry out the survey and discover that researchers of the institute worked on the factor X.Y.Y. which, according to them, would be found at the inclined people with violence and the Criminalité. Murder series begin then and aim at preventing the progression of the investigation.

Analyzes

After the success of the film the Bird with the crystal plumage , the scenario writer Dario Argento delivers here a new police investigation which will be followed by Four gray velvet flies . This animalist trilogy will make of him the Master of the Giallo (Italian whodunnit) granting the statute of realizer worship to him the beginning of his career.

Although not being dependant between them, the first two films of Dario Argento take again the same traditional characteristics of the giallo . One their common points comes for example from the course of the investigation which makes it possible to the realizer to scramble the tracks. The identity of the assassin is revealed only at the end of film, and surprises the spectator, at the time of a scene during which the murderer tries to eliminate the person who tracks it.

Data sheet

Title: the Cat-o'-nine-tails
original Title: It Gatto has nove code
Réalisation: Dario Argento
Scenario: Dario Argento, Luigi Collo and Dardano Sacchetti
Production: Salvatore Argento
Budget: 1 million dollars (759 000 euros)
Music: Ennio Morricone
Photography: Erico Menczer
Assembly: Free Fraticelli
Decorations: Carlo Raised
Costumes: Carlo Raised and Luca Sabatelli
Country of origin: Italy, France, Germany
Format: Colors - 2,35:1 - Mono - 35 mm
Kind: Police officer, thriller
Lasted: 114 minutes
Comings out date: February 11th 1971 (Italy), August 11th 1971 (France)

Distribution

James Franciscus: Carlo Giordani
Karl Malden : Free Arno
Catherine Spaak: Anna Terzi
Pier Paolo Capponi: Spini
Horst Frank: Dr. Braun
Split Rassimov: Bianca Merusi
Aldo Reggiani : Dr. Casoni
Carlo Alighiero: Dr. Calabresi
Vittorio Congia: Righetto (cameraman)
Ugo Fangareggi: Gigi
Tom Felleghy: Dr. Esson
Emilio Marchesini: Dr. Mombelli
Fulvio Mingozzi: the henchman of Spini
Corrado Olmi: Morsella
Pino Patti : To bore

Around film

turning was held September 3rd with the October 29th 1970 with the studios Cinecittà of Rome, like with Turin.
the international casting of the film (in particular main actors) was imposed on Dario Argento by the producers.
In the United States, the film left in a version less long than the original one (92 minutes instead of 120 minutes).
a Cat-o'-nine-tails is an instrument of torture - a whip - composed of a handle of wood from 30 to 40 cm length at which nine cords or leather thin straps a length are fixed which varies from 40 to 60 cm whose each mobile end ends in a node.

External bonds

the Cat-o'-nine-tails on Internet Movie Database
Critical Critical DevilDead
on Dario Argento Project

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