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The Sweet Body of Deborah

Il dolce corpo di Deborah

Italy, France

1968

95 Min
Color
2.35:1
Italian
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DIR Romolo Guerrieri

PROD Tony Garnett, Mino Loy, Luciano Martino

SCR Ernesto Gastaldi, Luciano Martino

DP Marcello Masciocchi

CAST Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Ida Galli, Luigi Pistilli, Michel Bardinet, George Hilton

ED Eugenio Alabiso

PROD DES Amedeo Fago

MUSIC Nora Orlandi

SOUND Bruno Moreal, Bruno Zanoli

Synopsis

Deborah, a wealthy American, and her Italian husband, Marcel, are honeymooning in Geneva when they meet Marcel’s friend Philip, who belligerently informs them that Susan, Marcel’s former fiancée, has committed suicide. The couple stop at Susan’s deserted villa, where Marcel receives a death threat over the telephone. In Nice, he continues to receive menacing phone calls, and Deborah begins taking tranquilizers; one evening she accidentally takes too many and is revived by Robert, an artist who lives in the adjacent villa. Later, Philip attempts to murder her to avenge Susan’s suicide, but Marcel appears, stabs Philip, and buries his body in the garden. The next morning, when Marcel leaves to buy two plane tickets to the United States, Philip and Susan suddenly appear; when the terror-stricken Deborah faints, the couple drug her, slash her wrists to make her death look like suicide, and drive away. —IMDb

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Romolo Guerrieri

Romolo Guerrieri (born 5 December 1931) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1961 and 1992. He was born in Rome, Italy. —Wikipedia 

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Mr. Arkadin

1Sep12

I appreciate the strength of the cast, the sometimes-gorgeous location shooting, and at least one murder set piece (the nighttime burial in the rain), but for me it lacks both the heights of style of an Argento (or an Ercoli, or Miraglia, or Martino), and the profound weirdness (often sexual or traumatic weirdness) that typifies, imho, the best examples of the genre. Will definitely be due for a rewatch soon.

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Daeron

1Apr11

Sorel and Baker are doing the horizontal mambo until someone finds the proverbial knife in the back.

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