Italy, 1972
102m
35mm film, Technicolor, Techniscope, 2.35:1
mono, Italian
An Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. It was originally released in Italy on Original Release 29 September 1972.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Lucio Fulci
A Lucio Fulci film
Medusa Produzione *
Executive Producer: Renato Iaboni [real name: Renato Jaboni]
Production Manager: Agostino Pane
Screenplay by: Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, Gianfranco Clerici
Story by: Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti
Assistant Director: Francesco Cinieri
Continuity: Roberto Giandalia
Director of Photography: Sergio D’Offizi
Cameraman: Gianni Bergamini
Ass’t Cameraman: Enrico Lucidi
Still Photographer: G.B. Schwarze
Editor: Ornella Micheli
Editor’s Assistant: Bruno Micheli
Negatives: Eastmancolor
Musical Score by: Ritz Ortolani [real name: Riz Ortolani], directed by the composer
The Song “Quei giorni insieme a te” Interpted by: Ornella Vanoni
Music Publishers: General Music, Rome
Sound Engineer: Massimo Iaboni [real name: Massimo Jaboni]
Sound Effects Editors: Aurelia Pennacchia, Ezio Marcorin
Synchronization by: C.D.S.
Costumes: Marisa Crimi
Costumer’s Assistant: Elisabetta Pocioni
Make Up: Franco Di Girolamo, Nilo Iacoponi [real name: Nilo Jacoponi]
Assistant for Make Up: Mauricio Trani
Hair Styles: Rosetta Luciani
Assistant Make Up: Maurizio Trani *
Special Make Up Effects: Gino De Rossi *
Set Designer: Pierluigi Basile
Set Furnishings by: “Habitat” Via Cristofaro Colombo, Rome
Production Assistants: Donato Bitetto, Massimo Civilotti
Paymaster: Valerio Ferri
The production wishes to thank the headquarters of the carabinieri of the town of Monte S. Angelo for their valuable co-operation
Locations: Monte Sant’Angelo, Foggia, Apulia, Italy *
Cast
Florinda Bolkan [Maciara]
Barbara Bouchet [Patrizia]
Tomas Milian [Andrea Martelli]
Irene Papas [Dona Aurelia Avallone]
Marc Porel [Don Alberto Avallone]
George Wilson [Francesco]
Antonello Campodifiori [Police Lieutenant]
Ugo D’Alessio [Captain Podesti]
Virgilio Gazzolo [Police Commissioner]
Vito Passeri [Giuseppe Barra]
Rosalia Maggio [old lady]
Andrea Aureli [Mr Lo Cascio]
Linda Sini [Mrs Lo Cascio]
Franco Balducci [Mr Spriano]
Alternative Titles
Angustia de silencio – Spain
Don’t Torture a Duckling
Don’t Torture Donald Duck
Fanatismo
Kauhujen kylä – Finland
La longue nuit de l’exorcisme – France
O Segredo do Bosque dos Sonhos – Brazil
To trigono tis mavris mageias – Greece
References
Periodicals
- Bianco e Nero vol.35 no.3/4 (March/April 1974) p.53
- ETC no.13 (1995) pp.19-21 – illustrated review (Don’t torture a duckling by Greg Hillabrand)
- Rivista del Cinematografo no.12 (December 1972) p.612
Books
- 100 Cult Films by Ernest Mathijs & Xavier Mendik pp.70-71 – review (by XM [Xavier Mendik])
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.262
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.235, 318, 351
- Horror and Science Fiction Films IV by Donald C. Willis p.294-295
- Horror Film Directors 1931-1990 Volume 1 by Dennis Fischer p.461
- Horror! 333 Films to Scare You to Death by James Marriott & Kim Newman p.164
- House of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse pp. 273, 283
- Italian Horror Cinema by Stefano Baschiera and Ross Hunter pp.7, 11 – essay (Introduction by Stefano Baschiera and Ross Hunter); 65 – essay (Knowing the unknown beyond: ‘Italianate’ and ‘Italian’ horror cinema in the twenty-first century by Johnny Walker); 161, 167, 168, 172 – essay (Political Memory in the Italian Hinterland: Locating the ‘Rural Giallo’ by Austin Fisher), 217, 219 – essay (Italian Horror Cinema and Italian Film Journals of the 1970s by Paolo Noto)
- Serial Killer Cinema: An Analytical Filmography by Robert Cetti p.133-134
