The Cat o' Nine Tails (Il gatto a nove code) (1971)

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Directed by

Dario Argento

Starring (View all)

James Franciscus
Carlo Giordani

Karl Malden
Franco Arnò

Catherine Spaak
Anna Terzi

Pier Paolo Capponi
Police Supt. Spini

Horst Frank
Dr. Braun

Rada Rassimov
Bianca Merusi

Aldo Reggiani
Dr. Casoni

Carlo Alighiero
Dr. Calabresi

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Dario Argento
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Luigi Cozzi
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10 years, 5 months ago at Nov 24 18:42

djprojexion

The Cat o' Nine Tails is the second film in Argento's "animal trilogy" and for some reason this trilogy is virtually devoid of the crazed, blood-thristy animals of his later films. There isn't even a cat o' one tail to wreak havoc on anyone (see Inferno or Two Evil Eyes for some real cat terror). The mystery unfolds around a gumshoe reporter and a blind old man, a killer is stacking victims and th... read more

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1 year, 7 months ago at Sep 10 13:03

fernando

(BluR) Second Argento's giallo is blindsploitation (Malden is the wise disabled) and some nice deaths, especially the effect of gping down the elevator cables with hands...

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A newspaper reporter and a retired, blind journalist try to solve a series of killings connected to a pharmaceutical company's experimental, top-secret research projects and in so doing, both become targets of the killer.

Release date: 21 May 1971
UPC: 013131133394

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