Death Walks on High Heels (1971) aka La morte cammina con i tacchi alti (Arrow 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 1.0 Dual Commentary) Luciano Ercoli Frank Wolff Nieves Navarro Simon Andreu George Rigaud Jose Manuel Martin Luciano Rossi Claudie Lange hq
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- TypeHEVC/x265
- LanguageItalian
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- Last checkedApr. 21st '24
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Death Walks on High Heels
A famed jewel thief named Rochard is slashed to death on a train. His daughter Nicole, a famous nightclub performer in Paris, is questioned by the police about some missing diamonds but she claims to know nothing about this. Nicole is then terrorized by a masked man with piercing blue eyes who demands to know where her father has hidden the stolen diamonds. Suspecting that her jealous boyfriend Michel may be the man who is harassing her, Nicole and her new-found friend Dr. Robert Matthews escape to England and apparant safety. But the killer will strike again... Written by Johan Melle
Death Walks on High Heels (1971) aka La morte cammina con i tacchi alti, directed by Luciano Ercoli, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Italian theatrical mono, English mono dub, commentary track, and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067446/
Video encoded in two-pass 12.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : I've been saying I want to do more giallo, so here's a lesser-known one, by Luciano Ercoli, who directed eight films in seven years during the 70s, and then, according to himself, "inherited a fortune" and retired in 1977, presumably living the good life until his death in 2015. Good for him, although maybe bad for us, because this isn't a bad giallo at all, although the slightly chaotic plot, as well as a few strange decisions (like having the main actress in what looks suspiciously like blackface) are not the greatest. The cast, which is headed up by an American (playing British) several Spaniards, and a Frenchman, along with the usual Italians, includes Frank Wolff (who sadly committed suicide shortly after this was released, though I don’t think that was the reason), Nieves Navarro (credited as Susan Scott, apparently something of a muse for Ercoli, since she was in all three of his gialli and both his westerns), Simón Andreu, George Rigaud, José Manuel Martín, Luciano Rossi, and Claudie Lange.
Nicole is a stripper working in Paris, who learns that her father was stabbed to death on a train when she's questioned about some missing diamonds. Soon after, a mysterious man begins making threatening phone calls to her, and a distinguished looking gentleman watches her and films her at work. When she's threatened by a man in a ski mask wearing blue contact lenses, and later discovers a pair of similar lenses at her boyfriend's apartment, she flees, and runs into the man who had been watching her at the club, who turns out to be wealthy eye surgeon Robert Matthews. She tells him she wants to leave Paris, and he happily obliges, taking her first to London, then to his remote country cottage, where he tries to pretend she's his wife. He tells her all his money comes from his actual wife, who's very rich. Someone's spying on them, however, and when Robert returns to a trip from London, Nicole is nowhere to be found, and she's later found drowned. Things get even more complicated with double- and triple crossing, confused identities, a mysterious female assassin, a boat captain, and transvestites involved. This plot makes my head hurt a little.
This is a pretty decent transfer, not amazingly sharp, but subtle, tight grain, nice color and contrast, and ok detail. Mono tracks sound fine too, and the commentary with Tim Lucas is worthwhile as usual.
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 243 kb/s / 1 channel / Original Italian theatrical mono / Italian / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 247 kb/s / 1 channel / English mono dub / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 144 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by film critic Tim Lucas / English
Text #1 : VobSub / 8.7 kb/s / English for Italian audio
Text #2 : SRT / 60.0 b/s / English for English dub
Text #3 : VobSub / 10.5 kb/s / English SDH for English dub
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:08:29.509 : Chapter 2
00:19:26.248 : Chapter 3
00:28:28.624 : Chapter 4
00:36:17.884 : Chapter 5
00:45:11.125 : Chapter 6
00:53:16.902 : Chapter 7
01:01:11.543 : Chapter 8
01:11:10.558 : Chapter 9
01:20:52.598 : Chapter 10
01:30:14.868 : Chapter 11
01:38:50.299 : Chapter 12
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