BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE [BLU-RAY] [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1970
• Genre: Horror, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: In 1970, young first-time director Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria) made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage - a film which redefinded the 'giallo' genre of murder-mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.; ; Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante, We Own the Night) an American writeer living in Rome, inadvertently witnesses a brutal attack on a woman (Eva Renzi, Funeral in Berlin) in a modern art gallery. Powerless to help, he grows increasingly obsessed with the incident. Covinced that something he saw that night holds the key to identifying the maniac terrorizing Rome, he launches his own invesitgation parallel to that of the police, heedless of the danger to both imself and his girlfriend Giulia (Suzay Kendall, Spasmo)...; ; A staggerinly assured debut, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage establishes the key traits that would define Argento's filmography, including lavish visuals and a flare for the wildly inventive, brutal scenes of violence. With sumptuous cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (Apocolypse Now) and a seductive score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in the West), this landmark film has never looked or sounded better in this new, 4k-restored edition from Arrow Video!
• Cast: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho, Renato Romano, Giuseppe Castellano, Mario Adorf, Pino Patti, Gildo Di Marco, Rosita Torosh, Omar Bonaro, Fulvio Mingozzi, Werner Peters, Karen Valenti, Carla Mancini, Bruno Erba, Dario Argento, Angelo Casadei, Nestore Cavaricci, Giovanni Di Benedetto, Alfonso Giganti, Silvio Klein, Filippo La Neve, Reggie Nalder, Annamaria Spogli, Maria Tedeschi, Fredric Brown
• Director: Dario Argento
• Runtime: 1:38
• Company: Arrow Video
• Media Format: Movie