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6.7/10 Letterboxd Directed by Francesco Mazzei Music by Francesco De Masi Initial release 23 November 1972 (Italy) Music director Francesco De Masi | 6.1/10 IMDb 3/5 Rate Your Music Produced by Francesco Mazzei Cinematography Giovanni Ciarlo Director Francesco Mazzei | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Francesco Mazzei
Marcello Aliprandi
Mario Bianchi (screenplay)
Bruno Di Geronimo (screenplay)
Vinicio Marinucci (screenplay) Starring Renzo Montagnani
Eva Czemerys
Bedy Moratti Screenplay Francesco Mazzei, Mario Bianchi, Vinicio Marinucci, Bruno Di Geronimo Story by Francesco Mazzei, Marcello Aliprandi Cast Renzo Montagnani, Bedy Moratti, Eva Czemerys, Claudia Gravy, Maurizio Bonuglia Similar The Killer Reserved Nine Seats, The Crimes of the Black Cat, Il letto in piazza, My Dear Killer, Long Lasting Days | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
L'arma, l'ora, il movente, internationally released as The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive, is a 1972 Italian giallo film produced, co-written and directed by Francesco Mazzei. It is the first giallo that showed a corrupt priest as victim of a crime, a plot that would become a topos of the genre. Co-plotter Marcello Aliprandi went on to create another similar film in 1982, involving murder and Catholicism, entitled The Vatican Conspiracy.
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Don Giorgio (Maurizio Bonuglia), a handsome priest who teaches in a convent, has been having affairs with two different women. He decides to break off relations with both of them, and soon after he is murdered. The police suspect one of the two women of the murder, but the field is narrowed when one of the two women has her throat slashed. The police learn that a little boy (Arturo Trina) witnessed one of the killings, but they're not sure if he is reliable.