Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Blood and Black Lace (1964)

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Cast & Crew.

Cameron Mitchell
Massimo Morlacchi

Eva Bartok
Contessa Cristiana Cuomo

Thomas Reiner
Inspector Silvestri

Ariana Gorini
Nicole

Dante DiPaolo
Franco Scalo

Mary Arden
Peggy Peyton

Franco Ressel
Marchese Riccardo Morelli

Claude Dantes
Tao-Li

Luciano Pigozzi
Cesare Lazzarini

Lea Lander
Greta

Massimo Righi
Marco

Francesca Ungaro
Isabella

Giuliano Raffaelli
Zanchin

Harriet Medin
Clarissa

Mary Carmen
Model

Heidi Stroh
Bleach Blond Model

Enzo Cerusico
Gas Station Attendant

Nadia Anty
Model

Calisto Calisti
Butler (uncredited)

Romano Moraschini
Suspect at Police Station (uncredited)

Goffredo Unger
The Masked Killer (uncredited)

Carlo Rustichelli
Original Music Composer

Mario Bava
Director / Writer / Director of Photography

Mario Serandrei
Editor

Tina Grani
Costume Design

Giuseppe Barilla
Writer

Ubaldo Terzano
Director of Photography

Marcello Fondato
Story / Screenplay

Priscilla Contardi
First Assistant Director

Vittorio Trentino
Sound

Benito Carifi
Production Secretary

Arrigo Breschi
Set Decoration / Set Dresser

Franco Grifeo
Administration

Marisa Laganga
Hairstylist

Luciana Loschiavo
Script Supervisor

Emilio Trani
Makeup Artist

Mario Mancini
Camera Operator

Lina Caterini
Assistant Editor

Antonio Rinaldi
Gaffer

Italo Cameracanna
Foley Artist

Georges C. Stilly
Executive Producer

Cristina Grieco
Second Assistant Director

Massimo Patrizi
Producer

Armando Govoni
Production Manager

Georges de Beauregard
Co-Producer

Alfredo Mirabile
Producer

Benito Caripi
Production Secretary

Fabio Ancillai
Sound Mixer

Eleanora Garnett
Costumer

Piero Speziali
Accountant
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Details.
Release DateApril 10, 1964
Original NameSei donne per l'assassino
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Content RatingNR
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Blood and Black Lace (Italian: Sei donne per l'assassino, lit. 'Six Women for the Murderer') is a 1964 giallo film directed by Mario Bava and starring Eva Bartok and Cameron Mitchell. The story concerns the brutal murders of a Roman fashion house's models, committed by a masked killer in a desperate attempt to obtain a scandal-revealing diary.
The film began development shortly after Bava had ended his long-time association with Galatea Film, for whom he had made most of his earlier works as a cinematographer and director. Made with a budget that was lower than several of the director's prior horror films, Blood and Black Lace was an Italian, French and West German international co-production between Emmepi Cinematografica, Les Productions Georges de Beauregard and Monachia Film. Different sources and ministerial papers provide varying degrees of information on the authorship of the film's screenplay, with most sources crediting Marcello Fondato, Giuseppe Barillà and Bava as co-writers; co-star Mary Arden is credited with having adapted the script's dialogue into English. Most of the technical staff and several cast members were veterans of Bava's previous films. Principal photography began in Rome in late 1963 with an international, multilingual cast; some actors read their lines fluently, while others performed them phonetically.
Film critics and historians such as Tim Lucas and Roberto Curti have identified Blood and Black Lace as representing an evolution in both Bava's style and the thriller genre depicted in cinema. Having used thriller conventions in his earlier films The Girl Who Knew Too Much and "The Telephone", a segment of Black Sabbath, Bava used this film to combine elements of contemporary West German murder mystery films (krimis) with the lurid juxtaposition of eroticism and violence present in popular fiction of the time, namely the long-running Giallo Mondadori series of pulp novels. Though it did not start a trend in the genre, the film has retrospectively been described as being among the first giallo films, as its exaggerated use of colour photography and eschewing of a traditional mystery in favour of a focus on set pieces of graphic murder would become staples of the form.
The film premiered in Rome on March 14, 1964, where it was commercially unsuccessful. Contemporary and retrospective reviews primarily praised Bava's direction and its visual style, although some found its plot to be weak and lacking in characterisation. After the successful release of Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage in 1970, a wave of gialli were made in Italy, with many sharing stylistic traits from Blood and Black Lace. Works by such filmmakers as Martin Scorsese and Pedro Almodóvar have referenced the film, and it has appeared on several "best of" lists related to thriller, horror and slasher films.
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