aka Lasciapassare per il morto
\nOriginal release date: 28\/05\/1962
\nOriginal running time: 93 mins
\nAn Aldo Calosso production for Antonelliana Cinematografica (Turin)
\nDirector: Mario Gariazzo
\nStory: Mario Gariazzo
\nScreenplay: Germano Arendo, Carlo Ferrero, Mario Gariazzo
\nCinematography: Claudio Racca
\nMusic: Marcello Giombini
\nEditor: Otello Colangeli
\nArt director: Enrico Tovaglieri
\nCast: Alberto Lupo, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Chanel, Linda Christian, Erno Crisa, Piero Lulli, Paul Muller, Nando Angelini, Claudio De Rossi, Guido De Salvi, Carlo Ferrero, Romano Ghini, Janine Hendy, Cesare Zanone<\/p>\n
Plot: Alberto Lupo plays a criminal who, with a partner, attacks a van loaded with bank notes. During a shootout with the guards, his partner is killed, and Lupo tries to make it over the French border by hiding in a coffin. Unexpectedly, he ends up being trapped in an icy cold morgue. This film has some powerful moments, and really displays Lupo’s acting talents. I never thought Lupo was a very good actor until I saw this film, which showed me that I had been wrong. As well, this is a wonderful debut for director Mario Gariazzo. With an almost non-existent cast, Gariazzo concentrates almost entirely on Lupo’s predicament, and we feel his desperation as the tension builds to a climax. The English-language print of this film is supposed to be cut pretty deeply, but the version I saw was the uncut Italian release. (IMDB)<\/p>\n
Comment: Here’s an interesting, obscure one, directed by Mario Gariazzo, who’d later make the excellent The Bloody Hands of the Law<\/strong>. It sounds a little like Regnoli’s I’ll See You in Hell<\/strong>, which has a similar ‘robbery goes wrong and survivors stumble into further misadventures’ type plot. I know there is an English language copy floating around, but haven’t seen it myself…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s an interesting, obscure one, directed by Mario Gariazzo, who’d later make the excellent The Bloody Hands of the Law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[482,481],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}