CLOSED CIRCUIT (1978) the most amazing Giallo ever!
3218DVD
The
Strangest Italian Giallo of Them All... with an Unforgettable Ending!
Original
Italian Title: CIRCUITO CHIUSO [Closed Circuit]
Also Known As: IS IT SAFE IN THE THEATER? and
CRIME WITH NO KILLER
director: Giuliano Montaldo
starring: Giuliano Gemma ·Flavio Bucci · Tony Kendall ·
Aurore Clement · William Berger · Brizio Montinaro
An audience is watching
a Spaghetti Western in an Italian theater. Then, suddenly, during an on-screen
shoot-out - just as Giuliano Gemme pulls his trigger - a man in the audience
dies in his chair. He's been shot. Nobody is allowed to leave the theater
and the police arrive immediately to conduct an investigation. Outside,
crowds are beginning to gather; the Media has set up shop in the lobby.
The killer must be a member of the audience, so the questioning begins.
But there are no clues. No murder weapon. The police decide to reenact
the crime. Everybody takes a their previous seat and an usher fills in
for the dead man. But then - shockingly - at the same moment in the film,
when shots ring out, the usher is also killed in his seat...
Probably the strangest
Italian thriller of them all! And certainly very different from the director's
other movies which tend to be rather mainstream crime films (i.e.,
Grand Slam, Machine Gun McCain, Sacco & Vanzetti,
et al). This one was a big prize winner at the prestigious Berlin
Film Festival in 1978 and is on permanent display at Italy's Museum of
Modern Art.
An
Italian film with English subtitles; widescreen format, uncut version
(102 min.), DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT, playable on
any American machine. Extras include theatrical trailers.
