L'arma, l'ora, il movente (1972)

Directed by

Francesco Mazzei

Genre

thriller film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A priest is found murdered in a church. A detective investigates the crime and uncovers secrets involving the clergy and local townspeople.

tensesuspensefulmoodymysteriousstylishdarkatmosphericunsettling

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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