Four Flies on Grey Velvet
4 mosche di velluto grigio

Also Known As : Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971), Four Patches of Grey Velvet (1971), Quatre mouches de velours gris (France), Vier Vliegen op Grijs Fluweel (Belgium), Fire Fluer (Denmark), Fier Fliegen auf Grauem Samt (Germany), Quatro moscas de veludo (Portugal), Cuatro moscas sobre terciopelo gris (Spain)

@"I want so badly to see you die slowly. Painfully."
@-Nina Tobias


1971 Color


[STAFF]
Directed by Dario Argento
Produced by Salvatore Argento
Produced by: Marianne Productions / Paramount Pictures Corporation / Seda Spettacoli
Distributed by : Paramount Pictures
Written by Dario Argento (also story), Luigi Cozzi (story), Mario Foglietti (story)
Cinematography by Franco Di Giacomo
Music by Ennio Morricone
Production Design by Enrico Sabbatini
Film Editing by Francoise Bonnot
Nick Alexander .... sound
Luciano Anzilotti .... sound effects
Catherine Bernard .... assistant to the director
Bruno Bianchi .... cutting room assistant
Paolo Borselli .... hair styles
Piero Bozza .... assistant to the director
Roberto Carnivale .... still photographer
Luigi Cozzi .... assistant to the director
Carlo Cucchi .... production co-ordinator
Eugenio Fiori .... boom operator
Sergio Fraticelli .... cutting room assistant
Alessandro Gabriele .... assistant to the director
Cataldo Gaiiano .... special effects
Angelo Jacono .... production manager
Giuseppi Lanci .... camera operator
Giuliano Laurenti .... make-up
Giuseppe Mangano .... unit manager
Mauro Marchetti .... assistant camera operator
Giovanni Morosi .... make-up assistant
Bruno Nicolai .... orchestra conductor
Roberto Pariante .... assistant director
Franco Pedacchia .... set dresser
Mario Ronchetti .... sound engineer
Gianfranco Transunto .... assistant camera operator
Giovanni Viti .... wardrobe assistant
Patrizia Zulini .... script girl

Film negative format (mm/video inches) 35 mm
Cinematographic process Techniscope
Printed film format 35 mm
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1
time : 101min

[CAST]
Michael Brandon.... Roberto Tobias
Mimsy Farmer .... Nina Tobias Jean-Pierre
Marielle .... Gianni Arrosio
Bud Spencer .... Diomede (US: Godfrey)
Aldo Bufi Landi .... Pathologist
Calisto Calisti .... Carlo Marosi
Marisa Fabbri .... Amelia, the governess (US: Hilda)
Oreste Lionello .... the Professor
Fabrizio Moroni .... Mirko
Corrado Olmi .... Porter Stefano Satta
Flores .... Andrea (US: Andrew)
Francine Racette .... Dalia
Tom Felleghy .... Police superintendent
Jacques Stany .... Psychiatrist
Constanza Spada .... Maria Pia Gianni De (as Gianni Di Benedetto Benedetto)
Sandro Dori
Renzo Marignano
Dante Cleri
Guerrino Crivello
Gildo Di Marco
Leopoldo Migliori
Fulvio Mingozzi
Stefano Oppedisano
Pino Patti
Ada Pometti


[STORY]

Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders...

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