A Black Ribbon for Deborah
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| Directed by | Marcello Andrei |
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| Cinematography | Claudio Racca[2] |
| Edited by | Gianni Oppedisano[2] |
| Music by | Albert Verrecchia[2] |
Production company | Paola Film s.r.l.[1] |
| Distributed by | Alpherat |
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Running time | 108 minutes[1] |
| Country | Italy[1] |
| Box office | ₤118.676 million |
A Black Ribbon for Deborah (Italian: Un fiocco nero per Deborah) is a 1974 Italian horror film directed by Marcello Andrei.
Cast
- Bradford Dillman as Michel Lagrange
- Marina Malfatti as Deborah Lagrange
- Gig Young as Ofenbauer
- Delia Boccardo as Mira
- Micaela Esdra as Elena
- Lucretia Love as Wife of Ofenbauer
Production
Director Marcello Andrei and his co-writers originally conceived the film with an original idea of a dying woman passing the child she is bearing to another person.[3] Giuseppe Pulieri stated that the script he worked one was ruined by a producers attempt to exploit the film as part of the "demonic possession" cycle of films.[3] Pulieri stated that "The script stayed ten years in the drawer, I even pestered Raymond Stross into making it, to no avail ... they altered the story, the in all the usual bullshit: the witches, the sorcerer, the special effects..."[3]
The film began shooting on May 13, 1974.[3]
Release
A Black Ribbon for Deborah was distributed theatrically in Italy by Alpherat on 26 September 1974.[1] The film grossed a total of 118,676,000 Italian lire domestically.[1] Italian film historian Roberto Curti described the film as passing "almost unnoticed on its theatrical release".[3]
The film was first released on home video in the United States and the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.[3] It was released in the United Kingdom as The Torment.[1]
Reception
AllMovie defines the film a "low-wattage horror piece".[4]
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e f Curti 2017, p. 120.
- ^ a b c d e Curti 2017, p. 119.
- ^ a b c d e f Curti 2017, p. 121.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Deborah (1974)". AllMovie. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
References
- Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979. McFarland. ISBN 1476629609.
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