The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
- Original title
- L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
- Directed by
- Dario Argento
- Genre
- drama film, horror film, crime film, slasher film, romance film, exploitation film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 838 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An American writer in Rome witnesses a serial killer attacking a woman. He becomes obsessed with identifying the murderer before becoming a target himself.
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What happens
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 becomes 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 Argento's thematic "Animal Trilogy", along with his 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 previously been adapted 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.