Sette scialli di seta gialla

• Anthony Steffen (English dubbing: Edmund Purdom) as Peter Oliver
• Sylva Koscina as Françoise Ballais
• Giacomo Rossi Stuart as Victor Morgan
• Jeanette Len (Giovanna Lenzi)
• Umberto Raho as Burton
• Renato De Carmine as Inspector Jansen
• Annabella Incontrera as Helga Schurn
• Shirley Corrigan as Margot Thornhill
• Romano Malaspina
• Imelde Marani
• Liliana Pavlo
• Irio Fantini

File:Crimes of the Black Cat - (1972) screenshot.png, Sylva Koscina, Liliana Pavlo, and Shirley Corrigan in a scene from the film.]]

Several fashion models are killed by a murderer who poisons a cat's claws with curare. Each victim is given a shawl as a gift, which is laced with a chemical attracting the cat. The first such victim, Paola, had been in a relationship with a blind composer, Peter Oliver (Anthony Steffen) who overhears a conversation he believes may help him track down the killer. Oliver, aided by his butler Burton (Umberto Raho) tracks the cat to its owner Susan (Jeannette Len), who is murdered before she can reveal who has been using the cat. However, the identity of the killer is eventually discovered to be Françoise (Sylva Koscina), the owner of the studio employing the murdered models. Francoise had killed Paola after discovering that her husband Victor (Giacomo Rossi Stuart) had been having an affair with the young model, and had committed the other murders to help cover up the motive for the first killing.

Production of Sette scialli di seta gialla began on 31 March 1972. The film has been described as part of a "boom" of "imitative whodunits" released after the success of Dario Argento's L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo, along with such films as Una lucertola con la pelle di donna and Los ojos azules de la muñeca rota.{{sfn|Newman|2011|p=143}}{{sfn|Marriott|2012|p=1985}} Alessandro Continenza and Giovanni Simonelli, who wrote the script alongside director Sergio Pastore, had previously collaborated on the screenplay for the 1966 Spaghetti Western Django spara per primo.{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/189185?view=credit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115221320/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/189185?view=credit |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 15, 2009 |title= BFI {{!}} Film & TV Database {{!}} Django spara per primo {{!}} Full credits |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=June 17, 2012}} The film's title has been noted as one of many giallo titles using either numbers or animal references, having been directly compared to Sette note in nero.{{sfn|Giovannini|1986|pp=27–28}}

Sette scialli di seta gialla was released on 12 August 1972 in Italy. The title translates as Seven Shawls of Yellow Silk. It has also been distributed under the title Crimes of the Black Cat.{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/343765 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115212750/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/343765 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 15, 2009 |title= BFI {{!}} Film & TV Database {{!}} Sette scialli di seta gialla |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=June 17, 2012}}

Allmovie gave the film a positive review, calling it "an underrated gem" and one of the most "entertainingly flamboyant" giallo films.{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/sette-scialli-di-seta-gialla-v143291/review |title=Sette Scialli Di Seta Gialla (1972) |author=Robert Firsching |work=Allmovie |access-date=17 June 2012}}

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Category:1972 films

Category:1970s Italian films

Category:Films scored by Manuel De Sica

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