The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Tony Musante
Sam Dalmas
Suzy Kendall
Julia
Enrico Maria Salerno
Inspector Morosini
Eva Renzi
Monica Ranieri
Umberto Raho
Alberto Ranieri
Renato Romano
Professor Carlo Dover
Giuseppe Castellano
Monti
Mario Adorf
Berto Consalvi
Pino Patti
Faiena
Gildo Di Marco
Garullo
Rosita Torosh
Victim
Omar Bonaro
Police Detective
Fulvio Mingozzi
Police Detective
Werner Peters
Antique Dealer
Karen Valenti
Tina
Carla Mancini
Girl Watching TV
Bruno Erba
Police Detective
Annamaria Spogli
Sandra Roversi (uncredited)
Giovanni Di Benedetto
Professor Rinaldi (uncredited)
Reggie Nalder
Needles (uncredited)
Maria Tedeschi
Old Lady in Fog (uncredited)
Aldo Barozzi
Passerby who calls the Police (uncredited)
Ugo Mari
Mario Zandri (uncredited)
Dario Argento
Director / Story / Screenplay
Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer
Vittorio Storaro
Director of Photography
Lidia Puglia
Hairstylist
Giuseppe Ferranti
Makeup Artist
Alberto Bartolomei
Sound Mixer
Franco Fraticelli
Editor
Salvatore Argento
Producer
Dario Micheli
Production Design / Costume Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 27, 1970
Original NameL'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Content RatingPG
Budget$500,000
Genres
Wiki.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Italian: L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo) is a 1970 giallo film written and directed by Dario Argento, in his directorial debut. It stars Tony Musante as an American writer in Rome who witnesses a serial killer targeting young women, and tries to uncover the murderer's identity before he become their next victim. The cast also features Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho and Mario Adorf.
A co-production of Italy and West Germany, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is the first in what has been called his thematic "Animal Trilogy", along with Argento's next two gialli, The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) and Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1972). Argento's screenplay borrows liberally from Fredric Brown's 1949 novel The Screaming Mimi, which had a previously been made into a 1958 American film.
An international commercial and critical success on release, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage has been credited with popularizing giallo, an Italian genre of horror-thriller developed in the 1960s, and launched Argento's career as a filmmaker.