Eye of the Spider
1971 film
- Luigi Angelo
- Fabio De Agostini
- Aldo Crudo[1]
Klaus Kinski
- Antonio Sabàto, Sr.
- Van Johnson
- Romalı Perihan
Production
company
company
Luis Film[1]
Release date
- 1 November 1971 (1971-11-01) (Italy)
Running time
Eye of the Spider (Italian: L'occhio del ragno) is a 1971 Italian crime film directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero and starring Klaus Kinski.
Cast
- Klaus Kinski - Hans Fischer
- Antonio Sabàto - Paul Valéry / Frank Vogel
- Van Johnson - Prof. Orson Krüger
- Romalı Perihan - (as Perihan)
- Lucretia Love - Gloria
- Teodoro Corrà
- Goffredo Unger - (as Fredy Unger)
- Franco Marletta
- Claudio Biava
- Brigitte Brandt
- W. E. Arnold
Style
Despite the title and posters imagery which makes the film sound like a giallo, Italian film historian Roberto Curti referred to the film as a "rather typical film noir"[1]
Release
Eye of the Spider was released on 1 November 1971 in Italy.[1] Due to the growing popularity of and commercial success of the poliziotteschi through the 1970s, the film was re-released as Caso Scorpio: sterminate quelli della calibro 39.[2] The film grossed 133,333,000 Italian lire domestically.[1]
See also
- Klaus Kinski filmography
- List of crime films of the 1970s
- List of Italian films of 1971
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Curti 2013, p. 49.
- ^ Curti 2013, p. 50.
References
- Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765.
External links
- Eye of the Spider at IMDb
- Eye of the Spider at Variety Distribution
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