Smile Before Death

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Smile Before Death
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Directed by Silvio Amadio
Written bySilvio Amadio
Francesco Villa
Produced bySilvio Amadio
Starring Jenny Tamburi
Silvano Tranquilli
Rosalba Neri
Cinematography Silvano Ippoliti
Edited byFrancesco Bertuccioli
Music by Roberto Pregadio
Bob Derament
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
88 minutes
LanguageItalian

Smile Before Death (Italian : Il sorriso della iena/ translation: Smile of the Hyena) is a 1972 Italian giallo film written and directed by Silvio Amadio, and starring Rosalba Neri. [1] [2] [3]

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Plot

Marco, a bankrupt nobleman, is unhappily married to the wealthy Dorothy Emerson. Her best friend, Gianna, is his mistress. Marco murders his wife (making it appear to be suicide by slashing her throat with a shard of glass) and becomes the administrator of his wife's estate, with the proviso that Nancy, Dorothy's daughter from a previous marriage, takes over control when she turns twenty. Marco has retired to live with Gianna in a luxurious lakeshore villa.

Marco's daughter Nancy contacts him to notify him that she will be taking control of her mother's estate very soon. Nancy has been living in a boarding school for years and hadn't seen her mother for a long time. Gianna tries to encourage Marco to kill Nancy, since Marco's standard of living will drop severely once she takes over the estate. But Marco ends up falling in love with Nancy, which complicates the proceedings.

Cast

Legacy

One of the Roberto Pregadio cues from the soundtrack, "Iena Sequence," featuring vocals by Edda Dell'Orso, was featured as the first track on the 1996 compilation album Beat in Cinecitta. The song became widely known in America for its use in a 2001 Honda Civic commercial called "Cut It Out," where a teenage boy sitting in a back seat between two girls attempts to take a wide stance and is castigated by his older sister who is driving.

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References

  1. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN   8876059350.
  2. ↑ Luca Rea (1999). I colori del buio: il cinema thrilling italiano dal 1930 al 1979. Molino, 1999. ISBN   8890035900.
  3. ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   8860736269.

4. Adrian Luther-Smith. Blood and Black Lace. Stray Cat Publishing, 1999. ISBN   09533261-1-X


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