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In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him.
Assassination in Rome
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Cyd Charisse Hugh O'Brian Mario Feliciani Alberto Closas Juliette Mayniel Philippe Lemaire Gina Rovere Beni Deus Manuel Alexandre Gianni Baghino Franco Giacobini Alberto Dalbés Carlos Casaravilla Memmo Carotenuto Eleonora Rossi Drago Augusto Brenna Angelo Casadei Iolanda Fortini Richard Kidwell Alba Maiolini Giuseppe Marrocco Romano Milani Alessandro Tedeschi
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Alternative Titles
Assassinato em Roma, Il segreto del vestito rosso, O Segredo de Bil North, El secreto de Bill North
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Theatrical
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Spain
07 Nov 1967
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Italy
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Italy
07 Nov 1967
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Spain
07 Jun 1965
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With its tepid mystery and complete absence of sex (apart from the presence of a prostitute) or anything sordid, Assassination in Rome in Rome is just barely a giallo. It does ultimately stumble upon some more familiar giallo qualities but, for most of its running time, it's really just a shiny Euro-mystery, complete with stunning scenery and some Americans (in this case, Cyd Charisse and Hugh O'Brien) wandering slowly through it.
The story, such as it is, is about the vanishing of Bill North (Alberto Dalbés), whose wife Shelley (Charisse) finds herself alone in Rome trying to find him. Luckily for her, her old flame Dick Sherman (O'Brien) just happens to be working as newspaper man there, and the two…
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Shelley is an American woman and therefore rich. She is with her husband Bill on holiday in Rome. One night he disappears and everybody tells her that he has, like all Americans, an affair with one of those hot Italian girls. Not even the police believes her that Bill is not the type for this kind of fling. Luckily, she bumps into Dick, an old American friend. He is not only a reporter and has excellent connections to a police inspector, but he is also Shelley's former lover and shares more than his first name with Dick Tracy. Soon a dead body, showing signs of torture, is found near Trevi Fountain, having a bag with white powder in his pocket.…
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"Was it murder, suicide, or Italian cooking?"
Not actually a giallo, but it's an early Italian take on the krimi genre, which would basically evolve into giallo.... so that basically makes this proto-gialli (despite its serious lack of style.)
The film starts okay but quickly just proves it has nothing interesting or exciting to show you.
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Silvio Amadio early giallo with Hugh O'Brian and Cyd Charisse. The film features a Hitchcock-like story but lacks the style and a Scooby Doo ending that's telegraphed early on. The picturesque Rome and Venice exteriors are happily plentiful and O'Brian is chiseled and heroic as usual. Overall, it's a bit better than a made-for-TV mystery but needed some more action beats and less dialogue.
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Watched as part of my #GialloSettembre challenge.
A wealthy American's husband goes missing as they vacation in the eternal city, so it's a stroke of luck when an old flame working for a newspaper who knows a cop volunteers to help find him. In their search it comes to light hubby might be involved in gambling, narcotics or even espionage and when they find him as a kidnap victim beaten so badly he can't talk, it's up to them to solve the titular crime.
Slow moving spy thriller with aspects of giallo including a gialloesque final death that has been copied since.
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After her husband goes missing a journalist and ex-lover (Hugh O'Brian) helps a tourist finding him not knowing he might be involved in some shady business...
A rather boring Giallo which feels more like a Euro Spy flick. Set in Rome and Venice the movie goes for some nice scenery shots but feels non-Italian otherwise with an uninterested American cast and uninteresting characters.
Very plot-driven and way too talky ASSASSINATION IN ROME starts to drag early on making nothing much of its promising premise. The mystery is interesting enough to be able to sit through this but the reveal was as unsurprising as it was illogical.Make or Break Scene: Even though providing pretty broad comedy the two Italian thieves and a shoe problem was a neat scene and probably the only thing to remember about this.
MVT: The locations.
Score: 4/ 10
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Considered by some to be an early giallo film but it has no violence or sex. But it does have a mystery. And it’s a reasonably good movie.
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Visually, this was so much more bland than I was hoping for. The costuming and outdoor locations were good, but that was about it. The story was extremely generic and boring. It didn't take long for the structure of; "Dick goes to a location and talks to a guy who tells him to go to another location and talk to a guy" to get grating. As I discovered during my film noir month, when it comes to mysteries, sometimes less is more; and this film could have used a lot less.
Shelley was completely useless as a character and it was very frustrating having to see her being rescued in every scene. I guess it's not surprising that a 60-year-old low-budget Italian film is sexist, but that doesn't make it any less disappointing.
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Hugh O'Brian plays Dick Sherman, the editor of an English language newspaper in Rome, the sort of guy who has two looks, either dressed up with his overcoat draped over his shoulders, or hip, with sunglasses and a pork pie hat, which is rather less convincing.
He hears of an American who has gone missing, and realizing that he's the husband of old flame Shelley North (Cyd Charrise and her famous legs), Dick wastes no time getting involved in the case.
For the most part, this is an almost Hitchcockian tale, with intrigue a plenty, as Dick follows a trail to discover what might have happened to Mr North, and why, although importantly Sherman isn't out to…
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Kinda middle of the road story, although I'm a bit disappointed as the cover for this makes it look like a priest with a gun. I really thought we'd get another crazy priest story.. or a priest with a loaded past kinda thing.. but no, just a pretty-boy wannabe Perry Mason gallivanting around Rome looking for clues to a murder. Ah well.
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In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him.
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Not too memorable. But not bad either. Eleonora Rossi Drago was cool and Hugh O'Brian was weirdly likable, but the dialogue was weak and Cyd wasn't given much to do.