A Woman Has Killed
{{Infobox film
| name =A Woman Has Killed
| image =Una donna ha ucciso.jpg
| caption = DVD cover
| director =Vittorio Cottafavi
| producer =
| writer = Siro Angeli
Giorgio Capitani
Vittorio Cottafavi
| narrator =
| starring = Frank Latimore
Lianella Carell
| music =Renzo Rossellini
| cinematography =Bitto Albertini
| editing = Renzo Lucidi
| studio = Nuovissima Film
| distributor = Cinecid (Indipendenti Regionali)
| released = {{Film date|1952|01|04|df=yes}}
| runtime = 93 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = Italian
| budget =
}}
A Woman Has Killed ({{langx|it|Una donna ha ucciso}}) is a 1952 Italian melodrama crime film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. While on a train journey a young woman tells another passenger how she murdered her husband, a British army officer.Bayman p.1 It is a neorealist film, based on the real story of Lidia Cirillo, who appears in the film.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Ottavio Scotti.
Cast
- Frank Latimore as Capt. Roy Prescott
- Lianella Carell as Anna
- Alessandro Serbaroli as Larry (as Alex Serbaroli)
- Vera Palumbo as Carla
- Umberto Spadaro as Padre di Anna
- Marika Rowsky
- Celeste Aída
- Diego Muni
- Vincenzo Milazzo
- Pia De Doses
- Lidia Cirillo
References
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Bibliography
- Bayman, Louis. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
External links
- {{IMDb title|id =0168689|title =A Woman Has Killed }}
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Category:1952 crime drama films
Category:Italian crime drama films
Category:1950s Italian-language films
Category:Films directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
Category:Fiction about mariticide
Category:Films scored by Renzo Rossellini
Category:1950s melodrama films
Category:Italian black-and-white films
Category:Italian-language crime drama films
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