Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velve

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Overview

In this Italian psychological thriller, a wealthy rocker is married to a woman who gets herself caught up in a murder case. The story features an interesting gimmick: a laser-beam camera able to record the final image in the eye of a corpse.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/24/2009
UPC:	0812592010103
Original Release:	1972
Source:	Mya Communication
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00
Sales rank:	47,726

Special Features

Italian trailer; US teaser and original trailers; English opening and closing credits; Extensive poster and photo gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Michael Brandon	Roberto Tobias
Mimsy Farmer	Nina Tobias
Aldo Bufi Landi	Pathologist
Bud Spencer	Godfrey 'God'
Jean-Pierre Marielle	Gianni Arrosio
Calisto Calisti	Carlo Marosi
Marisa Fabbri	Amelia, the Maid
Oreste Lionello	The Professor
Fabrizio Moroni	Mirko
Corrado Olmi	Porter
Tom Felleghy	Actor
Fulvio Mingozzi	Actor
Francine Racette	Dalia
Stefano Oppedisano	Actor
Ennio Morricone	Composer

Technical Credits

Dario Argento	Screenwriter,Producer
Nick Alexander	Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Four Flies on Grey Velvet
1. Chapter 1 [7:13]
2. Chapter 2 [9:54]
3. Chapter 3 [8:44]
4. Chapter 4 [7:52]
5. Chapter 5 [8:39]
6. Chapter 6 [8:37]
7. Chapter 7 [8:15]
8. Chapter 8 [8:38]
9. Chapter 9 [9:06]
10. Chapter 10 [8:19]
11. Chapter 11 [7:56]
12. Chapter 12 [9:04]

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Editorial Reviews

The third directorial effort by famed Italian splatter maestro Dario Argento, created during the middle of his giallo (pulp thriller) phase, Quattro Mosche di Velluto Grigio is an unfortunately overlooked and hard-to-find choice nugget in his oeuvre and the final film of his so-called "Animal Trilogy." The bravura opening-credits sequence, tuned to the music of Roberto's band (composed by Ennio Morricone) spliced with beating heart-shock cuts, establishes Argento's signature Hitchcock-meets-garishly-psychedelic style and sets up Roberto's stalked-by-a-stranger backstory. Its final shot, of a fly getting crushed by cymbals, suggests the tongue-in-cheek cant to the murder mystery that follows. Though the film is stocked with several incredibly effective suspense sequences, the inclusion of a pun-prone gay detective and the inchoate ramblings of Roberto's hobo friend God lead one to believe Argento did not take this film too seriously, so it is less stylistically oppressive than later productions. The storyline is burdened by the sort of Freudian hogwash and scientific make-believe used to propel lesser thrillers, but it's nonetheless relatively easy to follow and so grippingly laid out it's hard to get bogged down in specifics and prevents the film from slipping into camp. Franco di Giacomo's endless evocative photography is topped off by a hilariously grotesque ending.

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