The Seventh Grave

The Seventh Grave
Directed by Garibaldi Serra Caracciolo
Produced by
  • Felice Falvo
  • Arturo Giorni
  • Alessandro Santini
Screenplay by
Starring
  • Stefania Menchinelli
  • Nando Angelini
  • Armando Guarnieri
  • Bruna Baini
Music by Leopoldo Perez Bonsignore[1]
Cinematography Aldo Greci[1]
Edited by Mariano Arditi[1]
Release date
  • August 18, 1965 (1965-08-18) (Italy)
Running time
 77 minutes[1]
Country Italy[1]
Budget ₤40 million

The Seventh Grave (Italian: La settima tomba) is a 1965 Italian horror film directed by Garibaldi Serra Caracciolo.

Cast

  • Stefania Menchinelli as Katy
  • Nando Angelini as Elliot
  • Armando Guarnieri as Inspector Martin Wright/Sir Reginald Thorne
  • Bruna Baini as Mary Jenkins' lover
  • Antonio Casale as Jenkins
  • Germana Dominichi as Betty
  • Ferruccio Viotti as Pastor Crabbe
  • Gianni Dei as Fred, Jenkins' brother
  • Calogero Reale as Patrick

[1]

Production

The Seventh Grave was produced by F.G.S. International Pictures, a company founded in December 1964 by Felice Falvo, Arturo Giorni and Alessandro Santini.[2]

Santini also wrote the story and screenplay with director Garibaldia Serra Caracciolo and actor Antonio Casale.[2] The film was shot in three and a half weeks at Balsorano castle and Olimpia Studios in Rome from February to March 1965.[3] The films budget was around 40 million Italian lire.[3]

Release

A photonovel of the film was published in issue 52 of the Malìa in May 1965 while the film was released on August 18, 1965.[1] In 1968, Fortuanato Misiano's company Romana Cinematografica bought the rights from the producers and attempted to get the subsidies from 1965's Corona law.[3] The film was rejected by the Ministerial commission who unanimously decided that the "technical eligibility and sufficient artistic, culture and spectacular qualities" that the law demanded were not present.[3]

Reception

Roberto Curti, author of Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969 noted the films amateur qualities such as breaking the 180 degree rule and lacking continuity between shots and that "lighting was passable at best".[3] The script was described as one that "haphazardly assembles a bunch of Gothic stereotypes" and that the plot, the production clearly saw The Cat and the Canary (1927) "one too many times".[3]

References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Curti 2015, p. 146.
  2. 1 2 Curti 2015, p. 147.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Curti 2015, p. 148.

Sources

  • Curti, Roberto (2015). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969. McFarland. ISBN 1476619891.

See also

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