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L'assassino... è al telefono

  • 1972
  • VM18
  • 1h 43min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,3/10
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L'assassino... è al telefono (1972)
CrimineMisteroOrroreSlasher HorrorThriller

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaWhen a beautiful actress returns from a short trip to London, a mysterious man begins to stalk her. As she slowly turns the corner, she sees him and faints. Hours later she awakens, unable t... Leggi tuttoWhen a beautiful actress returns from a short trip to London, a mysterious man begins to stalk her. As she slowly turns the corner, she sees him and faints. Hours later she awakens, unable to recognize her own husband and friends.When a beautiful actress returns from a short trip to London, a mysterious man begins to stalk her. As she slowly turns the corner, she sees him and faints. Hours later she awakens, unable to recognize her own husband and friends.

  • Regia
    • Alberto De Martino
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Adriano Bolzoni
    • Alberto De Martino
    • Renato Izzo
  • Star
    • Telly Savalas
    • Anne Heywood
    • Osvaldo Ruggieri
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,3/10
    411
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Alberto De Martino
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Adriano Bolzoni
      • Alberto De Martino
      • Renato Izzo
    • Star
      • Telly Savalas
      • Anne Heywood
      • Osvaldo Ruggieri
    • 10Recensioni degli utenti
    • 10Recensioni della critica
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    Telly Savalas
    Telly Savalas
    • Ranko Drasovic
    Anne Heywood
    Anne Heywood
    • Eleanor Loraine
    Osvaldo Ruggieri
    Osvaldo Ruggieri
    • Thomas Brown
    Giorgio Piazza
    • George
    Willeke van Ammelrooy
    Willeke van Ammelrooy
    • Dorothy
    Rossella Falk
    Rossella Falk
    • Margaret Vervoort
    Antonio Guidi
    • Dr Chandler
    Roger Van Hool
    Roger Van Hool
    • Peter Vervoort
    Ada Pometti
    • Nurse
    Alessandro Perrella
    • Psychiatrist
    Marc Audier
    Piet Balfoort
    Georges Bossair
    Sandra L. Brennan
    Suzy Falk
    Leonardo Scavino
    • Killer
    Serge-Henri Valcke
    Serge-Henri Valcke
    • Regia
      • Alberto De Martino
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Adriano Bolzoni
      • Alberto De Martino
      • Renato Izzo
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    5ma-cortes

    Ordinary and routine Italian Giallo with the usual ingredients and shot in Belgium

    Run-of-the mill Giallo with slashing , suspense , plot twists , intrigue , well staged crimes and unexpected finale. A woman : Anne Heywood is shocked when sees a man : Telly Savalas who results to be the killer who murdered her boyfriend some years before . But it happens she has amnesia and doesn't remenber the past happenings . Little by little she has got strange flashbacks about the fateful events previously committed by the sinister murderer.

    A regular but tense and mysterious Gialli with usual gloved killer carrying out a criminal spree . Customary Giallo in which thrilling events , intrigue , twists , turns and stabbing scenes show up lurking and threatening throughout buildings , streets , parks and other locations from Belgium . Stars the beautiful but mature Anne Heywood as a woman who is stalked by a contract killer, being shocked by a former murder , having amnesia, and doesn't remember anything about the earlier deeds . Anne Heywood had a long career and in her maturity she played exploitation movies with various lascivious and sordid characters , including nude scenes , such as : Good look Miss Wyckoff , The Lady of Monza , The Nun and the Devil, The first time on the Grass and Ring of Darkness . Along with Telly Savalas , the popular Kojak , here on the other side of the law as a hit man who attempts to eliminate a potential witness . They are well accompanied by a good but not very known support cast , such as : Ruggieri, Piazza, Willeke Van Ammelrooy and Rosella Falk .

    It displays an anticlimatic musical score by Stelvio Cipriani in his usual style with plenty of synthesizer music typical of the Seventies . Enjoyable and colorful cinematography by the famous Joe D'Amato or Aristide Massaccesi . Being shot on location in Gaasbek castle , Lennik , Theatre Royal Monnaie Brussels , Brugge West Vlaanderen, Ostend , Flanders , Bruges , Belgium . The motion picture was regularly directed by Alberto de Martino , as it has some shortcomings , flaws and gaps . Martino was an acceptable artisan who directed several films of all kinds of genres around the Italian B-series , as he made the following ones , Peplum : Medusa against the son of Hercules , Triumph of Hercules , The Invincibles , Seven Spartans , Rivolt of the Seven, Invincible Gladiator . Eurospy : Operation Lady Chaplin . Warfare : From Ardenne to Inferno . Terror : Hyden Park, Holocaust 2000 , Miami Golem, Horror , AntiChrist. Thrillers : Puma Man, Rome like Chicago , The man with Ice Eyes , The Consiliere . And Spaghetti Westerns : Django shoots first , One Hundred thousand Dollars for Ringo, The Seventh Cavalry , among others .
    5The_Void

    Poor example of the Giallo

    I'm a big fan of the Giallo sub-genre; so much so that I can often find things to like in even the worst of the genre. However, I'm really struggling for good things to say about this one! I often find that Giallo's which try to focus on a single character are the most disappointing, and the genre is best known for stylish and gory death scenes for a reason! The main problem with this film is undoubtedly that it's just too slow and boring, and the reason for that is simply that not enough interest is created in the lead character and her situation. The film focuses on a woman named Eleanor. Eleanor is suffering from amnesia. Her husband was murdered five years previously and she passed out at the sight of an imposing bald man named Ranko. She wakes from a coma and has blanked out the last five years of her life and doesn't recognise her new husband George. It also just happens that Eleanor is about to appear in a stage play, but ends up having to ask her sister to replace her. Eleanor continues to have nightmares about the mysterious Ranko...

    Alberto De Martino is not one of the better known Italian directors, and judging by the films I've seen from him; I have to say I'm not really surprised about that (despite the excellent Formula for a Murder). The acting is not really up to much either, with British actress Anne Heywood failing to impress or inspire sympathy in the lead role, while Telly Savalas does not deliver the kind of performance that previous roles have shown he can deliver. The cinematography and locations used are both surprisingly bland, which is a shame. The film reminded me somewhat of Mario Bava's disappointing Lisa and the Devil (not just because both films feature Telly Savalas), although Bava's film has a lot more going for it than this one does. Music is often an important part of this type of film also and there have been many memorable scores written - again, however, you will not find one here. It all boils down to a dull finale and overall, unless like me you are a big fan of the genre and ultimately aiming to see every Giallo ever made; I would highly recommend giving this film a miss!
    6Rose_Noire

    When a great giallo actress meets two international Anglo-Saxon stars.

    Eleanor (Anne Heywood), a famous theater actress, arrives in Ostende, Belgium, to perform in her new play, Lady Godiva. But at the station she meets Ranko (Telly Savalas), a hitman come to kill a diplomat, and they recognize themselves immediately, awakening in her an old trauma. She faints under the shock and looses through an anterograde amnesia all her memory since the last five years, in fact since the accidental death of her boyfriend Peter (Roger Van Hool), thus joining the giallo characters of the disturbed heroin (Le Orme, L'Occhio nel labirinto, Senza Via d'uscita). Eleanor has now to reconstruct herself by finding what exactly happened so dreadfully five years ago about Peter and Ranko, and that she has since forgotten.

    But the cat Ranko with his compulsory black gloves and switchblade knife starts to stalk the mouse Eleanor in a threatening way. Was she herself a murderer? Does Ranko work for a hidden somebody? Was Peter's death really accidental? Who should be the bad genius of Eleanor's life? We wander with her through the labyrinth of her disjointed thoughts where past, present, fantasies and plays mix up concealing all issue. Her relatives try to help her to get out her state of "chronic anxiety verging on paranoia" and to gather the pieces of "the mosaic of her memories": her husband George (Giorgio Piazza), her lover Thomas (Osvaldo Ruggeri), her doctor Chandler (Antonio Guidi), her sister Dorothy (Willeke van Ammelrooy), and Peter's sister and owner of the theater Margaret (Rossella Falk, from Piu tardi Claire to Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso).

    On his side Ranko the killer doesn't waste time and begins to add corpses to extend his hit score. And as an actress must perform on stage, Eleanor will be back at her theater for a spectacular final confrontation, allowing the real tragedy to join the played ones. Finally the killer is not so much on the phone, but the title must have been chosen to match with great Hollywood standards like Dial M or Sorry Wrong Number. Even if the film lacks in some way of rhythm, punch and thrill, it stays classic within the style in this very heart of the giallo wave, and does achieve at last its mission. (Viewed in an Italian 1h38 version.)
    5Coventry

    The Italian/Belgian Connection

    There were five main reasons why "The Killer is on the Phone" stood on top of my watch list, and they all add up to each other! Number one: it's an Italian giallo! This perverted and violent type of whodunit-thriller is my favorite sub genre of horror and it's my personal mission to track down every single and most obscure installment ever made! Number two: it's an Italian giallo from the magical year 1972! They heyday of my favorite sub genre was relatively short, give or take from the mid-sixties to the mid- seventies, but the early seventies were the best years and 1972 in particular with too many brilliant gialli to list ("What have you done to Solange?", "Don't Torture a Duckling", "Who Saw Her Die?", "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times" and about fifteen more). Number three: it's an Italian giallo from the magical year 1972 and directed by Alberto De Martino! Mr. De Martino perhaps wasn't the greatest cult director from Italy, but he did courageously attempt to cash in on every trend and his movies are always massively entertaining ("The Antichrist", "Blazing Magnum", "Holocaust 2000", "The Puma Man"…). Number four: it's an Italian giallo from the magical year 1972, directed by Alberto De Martino and starring Telly Savalas! That's right, the one and only Kojak and former Ernst Stavro Blofeld makes a rare giallo appearance here! Savalas was and forever remains a monument of 70s cult cinema and here in this movie he gets to do what he does best: stand around silently and look ultimately menacing! Number five: it's an Italian giallo from the magical year 1972, directed by Alberto De Martino and starring Telly Savalas, AND entirely shot on location in my native country Belgium! Admittedly that last little detail meant the cherry on the cake for me. For some unknown reason, they shot the film in Belgium instead of Italy and it's fantastic to see familiar places pop up in a giallo, like the Ostend ferry port or this beautiful park in Bruges. Hence there also was the opportunity for Willeke Van Ammelrooy, an actress only famous in Belgium and The Netherlands thus far, to receive a bit more international recognition.

    Of course, considering all the above points, you'd think that I'm extremely biased and couldn't possibly write a properly objective review about "The Killer is on the Phone". Not true, in fact, because even though I'm incredibly happy that I was finally able to watch this movie, I do reckon that it's merely just a mediocre effort that probably won't even make my giallo top 50. The main shortcomings here are definitely the slow pacing, the unnecessarily complex and illogical plot and – most of all – the lack of violence and perversity. Theater actress Eleanor Lorraine spots a bald and uncanny man at a drinking fountain and faints. This was the same man who murdered her beloved husband five years ago, but because of the shock she suffers from amnesia and doesn't remember anything that happened in the past five years, including the killer's identity. The killer – Ranko Drasovic – doesn't know Eleanor's memory is gone, so he starts stalking her and plans to get rid of the witness. Meanwhile, Eleanor's surrounding also face many issues. She doesn't recognize both her new husband and her lover, and she has forgotten all her lines of the stage play that premieres the next Saturday. The script surely has a lot of potential and features a handful of great ideas, but the elaboration is poor and implausible. Eleanor suffers from a severe case of amnesia, yet everybody allows her to wander around town on her own and hold private investigations without offering her help or support. The killer has numerous of opportunities to eliminate her quickly but prefers to observe her endlessly, instead… probably just to stretch the running time. Oh, and by the way, so much for the film's title, as the killer only calls her house once and that sequence is rather irrelevant because there isn't an actual telephone conversation going on… The last 10- 15 minutes feature a few suspenseful moments and typically absurd giallo-twists, including the chase behind the theater scenes and the truth regarding her husband's death, but it's not enough to save the film. Stelvio Cipriani provides a marvelous musical score, as usual, and furthermore this film only proves that Bruges is a beautiful city; 36 years before the blockbuster hit "In Bruges" did the same.
    7thalassafischer

    Atmosphere, Mystery but Super Slow

    The Killer Is on the Phone is available in a clean, vibrant version with Italian audio which is always a plus. However, though it's low on sleaze (which I wholly approve of) it's also low on action and intensity, leading to a slight dullness.

    I appreciated the twists in the mystery which is more of a "why" than a "whom" but you have to really wait for that ending.

    I generally delight in spooky atmospheric fare, but this film comes across more like a drama than a Gothic horror, and I did not particularly like the main character which made it difficult for me.

    Still, L'assassino...e al telephono is solid and I can't in good faith knock it as a whole.

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      The tagline "TELLY SAVALAS on the other side of the law!" suggests this role is contrary to what audiences had come to expect of Savalas, as a cop champion for good, which would come to full fruition the following year, in his wildly successful "Kojak" television series.
    • Blooper
      The falling object (girder? light-box?) that knocks the piano that pins Ranko in reality would not have been heavy enough or properly positioned relative to the piano to have knocked it over.
    • Citazioni

      Airline Ticket Clerk: OK, sir, KLM flight 102, tomorrow morning at 10:30. I see that it's finally been decided. Indecision is not just a woman's prerogative.

      Ranko Drasovic: Is that so funny to you?

      Airline Ticket Clerk: I wasn't laughing sir, just smiling.

      Ranko Drasovic: I don't like men who smile at me. I always think they're fags.

    • Connessioni
      Referenced in Black Christmas (Un Natale rosso sangue) (1974)

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