L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo (1970, Italy)

A crime thriller by Dario Argento, meaning that it's full of improbable events, weirdly wooden dialogue, and plenty of gory bits. An American writer is visiting Italy and witnesses a murder, and then becomes involved in trying to solve it, and other murders by the same person.

Some way into the film there is a police identification parade; the police have lined up some habitual suspects; several violent criminals step up in turn, their names and records announced by a policeman, we get this one:

"Rupertello Luigi, alias Ursula Andress".

Police Inspector: "No, no, Petrini ..."

"Yes Inspector?"

"What's this character doing here ... how many times do I have to tell you, Ursula Andress belongs with the transvestites, not the perverts!"

Andress: "Oh, I should hope so!"

There are several English titles, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Bird with the Glass Feathers, The Gallery Murders, Phantom of Terror, and Point of Terror.

HF November 2004

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