Bird With The Crystal Plumage

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	Tony Musante	Sam Dalmas
	Suzy Kendall	Julia
	Enrico Maria Salerno	Inspector Morosini
	Eva Renzi	Monica Ranieri
	Umberto Raho	Alberto Ranieri
	Renato Romano	Professor Carlo Dover
	Giuseppe Castellano	Monti
	Mario Adorf	Berto Consalvi
	Pino Patti	Faiena
	Gildo Di Marco	Garullo
	Rosita Torosh	4th Victim
	Omar Bonaro	Police Detective
	Fulvio Mingozzi	Police Detective
	Werner Peters	Antique Dealer
	Karen Valenti	Tina / 5th Victim
	Carla Mancini	Girl watching TV
	Bruno Erba	Police Detective
	Dario Argento	Murderer's Hands
	Luciano Arrigoni	Pervert #1
	Luigi Baldoni	Man watching Television on the Street
	Aldo Barozzi	Passerby who Calls the Police
	Adriana Bruno	Passerby at Monica Ranieri homicide attempt
	Angelo Casadei	Ex Boxer's Convention Attendee
	Nestore Cavaricci	Fruit Vendor
	Giovanni Di Benedetto	Professor Rinaldi

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Director	Dario Argento
Writer	Dario Argento, Fredric Brown
Producer	Salvatore Argento, Artur Brauner
Musician	Ennio Morricone
Photography	Vittorio Storaro

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In 1970, young first-time director Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria) made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage a film which redefined the 'giallo' genre of murder-mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.

Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante, We Own the Night), an American writer living in Rome, inadvertently witnesses a brutal attack on a woman (Eva Renzi, Funeral in Berlin) in a modern art gallery. Powerless to help, he grows increasingly obsessed with the incident. Convinced that something he saw that night holds the key to identifying the maniac terrorizing Rome, he launches his own investigation parallel to that of the police, heedless of the danger to both himself and his girlfriend Giulia (Suzy Kendall, Spasmo)...

A staggeringly assured debut, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage establishes the key traits that would define Argento's filmography, including lavish visuals and a flare for wildly inventive, brutal scenes of violence. With sumptuous cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) and a seductive score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in the West), this landmark film has never looked or sounded better in this new, 4K-restored edition from Arrow Video!

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative produced by Arrow Video exclusively for this release
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
Original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks
English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
New audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
The Power of Perception, a new visual essay on the cinema of Dario Argento by Alexanda Heller-Nicholas, author of Devil's Advocates: Suspiria and Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study
New analysis of the film by critic Kat Ellinger
New interview with writer/director Dario Argento
New interview with actor Gildo Di Marco (Garullo the pimp)
Eva's Talking, an archival interview with actor Eva Renzi (Monica Ranieri)
Original Italian and international theatrical trailers
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp

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