Venetian Bird
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Duration Language English | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Mystery, Thriller Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1952 Cast (Edward Mercer), (Adriana Medova), (Renzo Uccello), (Chief of Police Spadoni), (Rosa Melitus), (Count Boria) Similar movies No Escape , Ace Ventura: Pet Detective , Under Suspicion , The Maltese Falcon , The Big Sleep , Armored Tagline Behind Her Lush Beauty Lurked | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Venetian Bird is a 1952 British thriller film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Richard Todd, Eva Bartok and John Gregson. In its US release, it was titled The Assassin.
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Synopsis
British private detective Edward Mercer (Richard Todd) is employed to travel to Venice and locate an Italian who is to be rewarded for his assistance to Allied airmen during the Second World War. Once he arrives in Italy, however, he becomes mixed up in an assassination and a great deal of mystery. The mystery revolves around whether Renzo Uccello (John Gregson) actually died a few years earlier in World War II or not. The city of Venice provides a familiar and magnificent backdrop for the story.
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Production
Michael Balcon originally rejected the idea of a film based on Canning's novel because it was set in Italy and dealt with Italians, not Britons. Betty Box appealed to Earl St John who over-ruled Balcon. Italian censors did require the script clear up the portrayal of political struggles in post-war Venice that were in the novel.
The film was shot entirely on location in Venice. Box and Thomas decided not to use colour as they felt it would not suit the genre.
References
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