Death Occurred Last Night

Original title: La morte risale a ieri sera

1970
TV-14
1h 38m

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A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.

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Trivia
This film marked pretty much the end of Eva Renzi's international career. She was known to be rather unpleasant on-set and had therefore left bad impressions on movie sets in England, Hollywood, West-Berlin, France, and Italy. After this film, she found it hard to find any work outside Germany at all.

Goofs
A good cop wouldn't wait till they get to the morgue to tell the obviously distraught father of a murdered child that he needn't have come to ID the body since it was burned beyond recognition, as Lamberti does to Berghazi.

Quotes
Madame: Here, gentlemen, first an aperitif. It stimulates your fantasies. Please! Cheers.
Commissario Duca Lamberti: Cheers. Here are tickets for the "Show."
Madame: The "Show" begins promptly, with the most exceptional girls to be found in Milan at the moment: Giselle, French, full of depraved and morbid fantasies. Erica: Her parents were a typical SS couple in charge of a concentration camp. And this is Hildegarde, as bright and dark as the moment she was conceived, as tall as the Carpathians mountains where she grew up.
Commissario Duca Lamberti: Well, I've always had a thing for tall women.

Connections
Featured in Italian Gangsters (2015)

Soundtracks
I giorni che ci appartengono
Written by Duccio Tessari and Gianni Ferrio
Performed by Mina

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7/10

Vigilante vengeance

Widower (Vallone) searches for his missing daughter with the aid of committed inspector (Wolff) leading to a complex web of exploitation and deceit.

Probably more a polizioteschi than strictly giallo fare, the pacing sometimes suffers and the plot twists more than it needs to, but despite some issues with momentum, the overall result is still satisfying.

Aside from the two leads who are both excellent, German leading lady Eva Renzi lends support as Wolff's highly invested wife, Beryl Cunningham has a sizeable supporting role as a reluctant informer of sorts, whilst Gabriele Tinti shows his disdain for criminals as Wolff's highly-strung detective partner.

It's a rather bleak tale which Director Tessari handles with care and compassion, another interesting contrast to the usual giallo in which victims are typically discarded with a casual contempt. Better than average, but don't expect razor blades, black gloves and blood-splatter - this is a complex mystery which takes its time to strike.