KISS OF DEATH (1974) MegaRare Martine Beswick film!
3423DVD
The
Rarest of all Martine Beswick films! A Masterpiece!
Original Italian Title:
IL BACIO DELLA MORTE
[The Kiss of Death]
also known as THE KISS
director: Mario Lanfranchi
starring: Martine Beswick · Maurizio Bonuglia · Eleonara
Giorgi · Brian Deacon · Vladek Sheybal · Barbara
Calori
Here is easily
the rarest of all Martine Beswick films. This motion picture, written
by Pupi Avati (HOUSE
WITH WINDOWS THAT LAUGHED), tells the story of a diva named Nara
who brings her controversial S&M show to the stage of a theater in
19th century Venice. After meeting Count Guido Rambaldi, she concocts
a plan (which involves Devil Worship and hallucinogenic drugs) to snatch
him from his adoring wife. Soon, the plot also includes murder.
Martine Beswick
had the distinction of being a Bond Girl in two different James
Bond films: From Russia with Love and Thunderball. That
notoriety introduced her to Hammer Studios where she starred in numerous
films including PREHISTORIC
WOMEN and Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde. She also made a couple
Spaghetti Westerns (BULLET
FOR THE GENERAL and JOHN
THE BASTARD). For Cult Fans, Martine will always be remembered
for her performance in Peter Collinson's notoriousPENTHOUSE. In the mid '70s, she made two films in Italy (which
contain very rare nude scenes) LAST
TANGO IN ZAGAROL and this seldom-seen masterpiece. After 65+
films and television shows, Ms Beswick retired from the Entertainment
Business in 1995. She owns a moving business in London where she continues
to work today as well as numerous appearances at Film Conventions.
After graduating
from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Milan in the early 1950s, Mario Lanfranchi
began directing plays and operas. At the onset of Italian television,
he was hired by RAI-TV as a program director and brought many shows to
the air (including the lavish Madame Butterfly with Anna
Moffo in 1956). In 1968, Lanfranchi turned his sites to motion pictures
with the extraordinary DEATH
SENTENCE. In 1980, he moved to London where he lived for 25 years,
staging big musicals and plays including the hit "September
Tide" with Susannah York, which ran for years in the West
End and Broadway. Mario Lanfranchi moved back to Italy in 2005 where he
lives today in a 16th century villa near Parma.
An
Italian Film with English subtitles; widescreen format (16:9), uncut (96
minutes), DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT; extras include
theatrical trailers.
Adult
Material/Violence/Nudity/S&M/Lesbianism/Sexual
Brutality
Recommended For Adult Audiences
