Giallo (1933 film)

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Giallo
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Directed by Mario Camerini
Written by Mario Soldati
Based on The Man Who Changed His Name by Edgar Wallace
Produced by Baldassarre Negroni
Starring Assia Noris
Sandro Ruffini
Elio Steiner
Cinematography Massimo Terzano
Edited by Mario Camerini
Music by Guido Albanese
Production
company
Distributed bySocieta Anonima Stefano Pittaluga
Release date
  • 1933 (1933)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryItaly
Language Italian

Giallo is a 1933 Italian comedy thriller film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, Sandro Ruffini and Elio Steiner. [1] It is based on the 1928 play The Man Who Changed His Name by Edgar Wallace in which a young wife begins to fear that her husband may in fact be an escaped murderer.

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It was made to capitalise on the growing popularity in Italy of Giallo, mystery and thriller fiction notable for their yellow covers and melodramatic plots often written by Anglo-American writers. It is also considered an early precursor of the successful Italian Giallo film genre, which boomed after the Second World War. [2]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome.

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