Four Flies on Grey Velvet

1971 Italy/France
Technicolor Techniscope 101m

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Quattro mosche di velluto grigio, Quatre mouches de velours gris (France), Vier Vliegen op Grijs Fluweel (Belgium), Fire Fluer (Denmark), Fier Fliegen auf Grauem Samt (Germany), Quatro moscas de veludo (Portugal), Cuatro moscas sobre terciopelo gris (Spain), Four Patches of Grey Velvet

CREDITS

Production Company: Seda Spettacoli (Rome)/Universal Productions (Paris)
Director: Dario Argento
Producer: Salvatore Argento
Story: Dario Argento, Luigi Cozzi, Mario Foglietti
Screenplay: Dario Argento
Cinematography: Franco Di Giacomo
Editor: Francoise Bonnot
Art Director: Enrico Sabbatini
Music: Ennio Morricone
Music Director: Bruno Nicolai
Special Effects: Cataldo Gaiiano

CAST

Michael Brandon (Roberto Tobias), Mimsy Farmer (Nina Tobias), Jean-Pierre Marielle (Gianni Arrosio), Francine Racette (Dalia), Bud Spencer/Carlo Pedersoli (Diomede/Godfrey), Aldo Bufi Landi (coroner), Calisto Calisti (Carlo Marosi), Marisa Fabbri (Amelia, the maid), Oreste Lionello (the 'professor'), Fabrizio Moroni (Mirko), Stefano Satta-Flores (Andrea), Constanza Spada (Maria Pia), Gianni Di Benedetto (funeral exhibition visitor), Dante Cleri, Guerrino Crivello, Tom Felleghy/Tomasso Felleghi (Inspector Pini), Fulvio Mingozzi, Stefano Oppedisano, Ada Pometti, Jacques Stany/Stanislav (psychiatrist), Sandro Dori (first funeral exhibition attendant), Renzo Marignano (second funeral exhibition attendant)

VIDEO

Belgium: Metropole - 95m, letterboxed.
France: Melisa Video - letterboxed; Atlantic - letterboxed.
All three as Quatre mouches de velours gris.
Greece: Sunset Video - French language, Greek subtitles - as Quatre mouches de velours gris.
Note: A European English language bootleg, running 93m 27s, which cleverly poses as a regular US release on the ficticious 'Silver Star' label, is the most widely available tape in
circulation. Taken from a damaged 16mm print with sound deficiencies this release is at least on a high-grade tape and fully scoped.

SOUNDTRACK

USA: CD An Ennio Morricone/Dario Argento Trilogy - a fifteen track compilation of music from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cat O'Nine Tails and Four Flies on Grey Velvet, plus a five minute interview with Dario Argento conducted by Claudio Fuiano.
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NOTE -Click here to see the written translation of the interview by Claudio Fuiano.
Click here to order this soundtrack CD from the U.S.A.
Or click here to order this CD from the U.K.

Le cinque giornate

1973 Italy
Technicolor 122m

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

The Five Days of Milan (English Language Title), Five Days In Milan (shooting title), Five Days

CREDITS

Production Company: Seda Spettacoli S.p.A
Director: Dario Argento
Producer: Salvatore Argento
Executive Producer: Claudio Argento
Story: Dario Argento, Vincenzo Ungari, Luigi Cozzi
Screenplay: Dario Argento, Nanni Balestrini
Cinematography: Luigi Kuveiller
Editor: Franco Fraticelli
Art Director: Giuseppe Bassan
Music: Giorgio Gaslini
Italian theatrical distributor: Euro International Films

CAST

Adriano Celentano (Cainazzo), Enzo Cerusico (Romolo Marcelli, a baker), Marilu Tolo (the Countess), Luisa De Santis (the pregnant woman), Glauco Onorato (Zampino), Carla Tato (the widow), Sergio Graziani (Baron Tranzunto), Germano Altomanni, Salvatore Baccaro (Garafino, a looter), Guglielmo Bardelli, Rolanda Benac, Danny B. Besquet, Ugo Bologna (official at victory celebration), Luca Bonicalzi, Luigi Castejon, Alfredo Ciarpelloni, Lino Cipriani, Angelo Cova, Guerrino Crivello (man with big ears), Agostino Di Berti, Tom/Tommaso Felleghy (Mariano, contessa's manservant), Vanni Gamerro, Ennio Groggia, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Lorenzo Logli, Manuel Manfredi, Emilio Marchesini (a prisoner), Dante Martini, Loredana Martinez, Fulvio Mingozzi (man at furious debate), Cristina Moranzoni, Ivana Monti (traitor Tranzunto rapes), Stefano Oppedisano (man at debate), Daniele Pagani, Renato Paracchi, Ermanno Pasquini, Claudio Pellegrini, Raffaele Pezzoli, Giorgio Saggioro, Mario Saviane, Claudio Sforzini, Gaetano Scala, Guido Spadea, Damiano Summo, Umberto Tabarelli, Sergio Tardioli, Enzo Ventura
*Uncredited - Dario Argento (bandaged man with Baron Tranzunto), Dante Maggio (old man in jail)

VIDEO

Italy: MFI Home Video - 126m, uncut as Le Cinque Giornate, Cat No. 050COS/080050; Azzurra Home Video - 126m, uncut as Le cinque giornate.

Deep Red

1975 Italy
Eastmancolor Techniscope 126m

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Profondo rosso, Les frissons de l'angoisse (France 'The Shudder of Anguish'), Rosso - Die Farbe des Blutes (Germany 'Red - The Colour of Blood'), Rosso - Farbe des Tobes (Germany: alternate title 'Red - The Colour of Death'), Bloedlink (Holland 'Blood Link'), Suspiria 2 (Japan), Rojo oscuro (Spain 'Dark Red'), Deep Red - The Hatchet Murders (USA), La tigre dai denti a sciabola ('The Sabre-Toothed Tiger' - pre-production title), Dripping Deep Red

CREDITS

Production Company: Seda Spettacoli Produzione for Rizzoli Films
Director: Dario Argento
Producer: Salvatore Argento, Claudio Argento
Story and Screenplay: Dario Argento, Bernardo Zapponi
Cinematography: Luigi Kuveiller
Editor: Franco Fraticelli
Art Directors: Giuseppe Bassan, Maurizio Garrone
Music: Giorgio Gaslini and Goblin
Assistant Director: Stefano Rocca
Special Effects: Germane Natali and Carol Rambaldi

CAST

David Hemmings (Marcus Daly), Daria Nicolodi (Gianni Brezzi), Gabriele Lavia (Carlo), Carla Calamai (Marta, Carlo's mother), Macha Meril (Helga Ulmann), Glauco Mauri (Professor Giordani), Eros Pagni (Inspector Calcabrini), Nicoletta Elmi (Olga Rodi), Giuliana Calandra (Amanda Righetti), Piero Mazzinghi (Bardi), Fulvio Mingozzi (agent Mingozzi), Vittorio Fanfoni, Dante Fioretti, Geraldine Hooper (Massimo Rici), Aldo Bonamano (Carlo's father), Liana Del Balzo, Lacopo Mariani, Furio Meniconi, Lorenzo Piani, Salvatore Puntillo (policeman), Piero Vida (fat agent), Tom/Tomasso Felleghi (surgeon), Attilio Dottesio (florist), Mario Scaccia (man at psychiatric conference), Salvatore Baccaro (market trader), Glauco Onorato (killer)

VIDEO

Australia: 7 Keys; Force - approx. 101m; Cinema Italia - approx 121m, Italian language, English subtitles - as Deep Red.
Denmark: label unknown - approx. 96m, letterboxed as Profondo Rosso (Mordets Melodi).
France: VIP 'Genius Collection'; Jet Video; Proserpine Video - full screen, pan and scan. All as Les frissons de l'angoisse.
Holland: label unknown - cut, letterboxed as Deep Red; Movie Select Video - 100m 27s, widescreen, English language with Dutch subtitles as Deep Red.
Italy: Domovideo - 121m 16s, letterboxed, end music cuts abruptly as Profondo rosso; Mondadori - 120m, letterboxed as Profondo rosso.
Japan: Columbia Video - as Profondo rosso.
Sweeden: Baroness - cut, full screen as Deep Red; House of Horrors- as Deep Red, Uncut, letterboxed, Swedish subtitles.
UK: Techno/Fletcher - 100m 32s, letterboxed as Deep Red; Redemption - 121m 09s: cut by 11 seconds with a BBFC '18' certificate version - a shot of two dogs fighting (4 seconds) and a shot of a lizard impaled on a needle (7 seconds), Italian language, full screen, English subtitles as Profondo rosso.
USA: Thorn-EMI - cut, full screen as The Hatchet Murders; Home Vision; HBO Video - 100m.
An European bootleg is in circulation on the fictious Silver Star label, 93 minutes 27 seconds, Letterboxed, English language.
NOTE - Click here to order the U.S NTSC Widescreen video.

LASERDISC

Japan: Columbia - approx. 105m, letterboxed 2.35:1, English language, Japenese subtitles as Suspiria 2; Beam Entertainment 'The Spectral Collection' - long Italian version, Mono, 2.35:1, Italian language with Japenese subtitles in a double box set with Suspiria.
USA: MCA Home Video.

DVD

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USA: Anchor Bay - 126m full version, anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1, Dolby Digital 5.1, 25th Anniversary featurette with Dario Argento, Goblin and Benardino Zapponi, Italian and U.S theatrical trailers, Talent Bios. NOTE: Beginning and end credits are incorrect. Portions of the English soundtrack were either never recorded or lost. Therefore, these scenes are presented in Italian with English subtitles.
NOTE - Beginning and end credit sequences are incorrect.
Portions of the English soundtrack were either never recorded or lost.
Therfore, these scenes are presented in Italian with English subtitles.
NOTE - Click here to order this DVD.
Anchor Bay -Two disc set comprising of Deep Red and Anchor Bay's Tenebre release in different
packaging. These discs are identical to the single editions.

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Japan: Culture Publishers -as Profondo rosso
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0, Italian language, Japanese subtitles (Optional)
Any additional infomation on this title would be greatly appreciated.
If you have any details regarding this DVD
please e-mail me at my usual address.
giallo_webmaster@yahoo.com

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NOTE - This title was originally due for release on 27th June 2001 from a company called DIVID.
However this and their other proposed release, the wrongly titled BIRD OF CRYSTAL PLUMAGE were put back time and time again.
It seems both titles have now been released by a company called Platinum Media Distribution.
UK: Platinum Media Distribution - 123 mins, 1.66:1 widescreen, Dolby AC-3 Stereo, Italian Language,
"Burnt-In" English subtitles, An interview with Dario Argento, Theatrical trailer, A short behind the scenes segment, Soundtrack features an interview with Claudio Simonetti from The Goblins.
Slightly cut version.
NOTE - Click here to order this DVD.

Germany: Laser Paradise - cut, letterboxed as Profondo Rosso, English language, German Subtitles.

Italy: Cinevox CD; Cinevox CD re-release of complete score; ViViMusica CD - Music From Dario Argento's Horror Movies - compilation of themes performed by Claudio Simonetti.
USA: Giallo Allegro CD - on a double-bill with Suspiria.