The Two Faces of Fear

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The Two Faces of Fear
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Directed by Tulio Demicheli
Screenplay by
  • Pedro Mario Herrero
  • Mario Di Nardo [1]
Starring
Cinematography Manuel Rojas [1]
Edited byAngel Serrano [1]
Music by Franco Micalizzi [1]
Production
companies
  • B.R.C.
  • Tecisa
Release date
  • 24 March 1972 (1972-03-24)(Spain)
Countries
  • Italy
  • Spain

The Two Faces of Fear (Italian : I Due Volti della Paura) is a film directed by Tulio Demicheli. The film is an Italian and Spanish co-production between the Rome based company B.R.C. and Tecisa a Madrid based company. [1]

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Cast

Release

The Two Faces of Fear was distributed in Spain on 24 March 1972. [2] It grossed a contemporary value of 81,001.29 Euro with admissions of 396,942 in Spain. [2]

Reception

From contemporary reviews, David McGillivray reviewed an 88 minute dubbed version in the Monthly Film Bulletin . [1] McGillivray stated that "Apart from one taut and reasonably well played sequence in which a woman-convinced that her husband is about to murder her on the operating table-pleads for understanding as she succumbs to the anaesthetic, this routine and underdeveloped thriller consists of little more than bits of badly tied wrapping." [1] McGillivray also stated that the film had "expressionless dubbing". [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 McGillivray, David (April 1973). "Due Volti della Para, I (The Two Faces of Fear)". Monthly Film Bulletin . Vol. 40, no. 471. British Film Institute. pp. 74–75.
  2. 1 2 "Coartada En Disco Rojo". The Spanish Film Catalogue. Retrieved April 11, 2020.