Sette scialli di seta gialla
Sette scialli di seta gialla International title Crimes of the Black Cat is a 1972 giallo film. It was directed by Sergio Pastore and written by Pastore, Alessandro Continenza and Giovanni Simonelli. Sette scialli di seta gialla stars Anthony Steffen, Sylva Koscina, Jeannette Len, Renato De Carmine, Giacomo RossiStuart and Umberto Raho.
Several fashion models are killed by a murderer who poisons a cats claws with curare. Each victim is given a shawl as a gift, which is laced with a chemical attracting the cat. The first such victim, Paola, had been in a relationship with a blind composer, Peter Oliver Anthony Steffen who overhears a conversation he believes may help him track down the killer. Oliver, aided by his butler Burton Umberto Raho tracks the cat to its owner Susan Jeannette Len, who is murdered before she can reveal who has been using the cat. However, the identity of the killer is eventually discovered to be Franoise Sylva Koscina, the owner of the studio employing the murdered models. Francoise had killed Paola after discovering that her husband Victor Giacomo RossiStuart had been having an affair with the young model, and had committed the other murders to help cover up the motive for the first killing.Production of Sette scialli di seta gialla began onMarch 1972. The film has been described as part of a boom of imitative whodunits released after the success of Dario Argentos Luccello dalle piume di cristallo, along with such films as Una lucertola con la pelle di donna and Los ojos azules de la mueca rota. Alessandro Continenza and Giovanni Simonelli, who wrote the script alongside director Sergio Pastore, had previously collaborated on the screenplay for the 1966 spaghetti western Django spara per primo. The films title has been noted as one of many giallo titles using either numbers or animal references, having been directly compared to Sette note in nero. ........
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