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Roan Group / Hammer Bird with the Crystal Plumage WS Rare LD Roan LaserDisc Horror

Bird with the Crystal Plumage WS Rare LD Roan LaserDisc Horror

Rare Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket with large split

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Bird with the Crystal Plumage WS Rare LD Roan LaserDisc Horror

Rare Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket with large split

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Tony Musante and Suzy Kendall in...

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

( Catalog Number RGL9639 )
(2.35:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970 - 98 min. - Color
Genre: Horror

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
The first directorial effort by Italian suspense master Argento. An American writer in Italy becomes an amateur sleuth when he witnesses a failed attempt by a serial killer to take the life of the wife of a wealthy gallery owner. A stylish beginning to a distinguished career, featuring the black-gloved killer that became the director's trademark.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
This trend-setting thriller put its director, Dario Argento, on the international map and began a flood of imitative mystery-horror hybrids which dominated Italian genre output in the early 1970s. Tony Musante, best known for the television series Toma, portrays an American who witnesses the murder of a woman at a trendy Rome art gallery. Before long, Musante finds himself targeted by a mysterious killer. Based on a story by Byron Edgar Wallace, Bird and hints at the flamboyance which would become Argento's trademark. This and Argento's subsequent two films Il Gatto a Nove Code and Quattro Mosche di Velluto Grigio were much less horror-oriented than his later work. --- Robert Firsching

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Dario Argento's directorial debut, is the rare serial killer picture that leaves much to the imagination by staging its murders with a minimum of gore and a reliance on strategic camera work. These scenes often have a claustrophobic feel to them, as they focus on hands, knives, and body parts, and use sound and editing to fill in the rest. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro displays his usual command of the visuals, whether he is showing off by having the camera give a point-of-view shot as a man falls to his death or is taking a more subtle approach when cloaking the protagonist in darkness as he is pursued through the streets by a yellow-jacketed assassin. Among the better scenes are: the opening sequence of Sam watching as Monica is attacked in a gallery while he is trapped behind a glass door and unable to help her; the scene where Julia is trapped in her apartment while the killer tries to carve through the door with a knife; and the surprising conclusion. All of these scenes contain the feeling of helplessness in the face of horror, a sense of being unable to prevent violence from happening to others or to oneself. The Bird With the Crystal Plumage looks very much like a product of its time -- the cosmopolitan atmosphere, the ultra-stylish approach to an old genre, and the sense that it is trying to shock its audience with a use of sex and violence (and, at times, a combination of the two) that was probably pushing the envelope in 1969, but which has considerably tamed over time. --- Bob Mastrangelo

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Cast for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Tony Musante - Sam Dalmas
Suzy Kendall - Julia
Eva Renzi - Monica
Enrico Maria Salerno - Morosini
Mario Adorf - Berto
Renato Romano - Dover
Umberto Raho - Ranieri
Carla Mancini
Fulvio Mingozzi
Werner Peters
Dario Argento - Black jacketed killer
Reggie Nalder - Assassin

Crew for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Dario Argento - Director / Screenwriter
Salvatore Argento - Producer
Vittorio Storaro - Cinematographer
Ennio Morricone - Composer (Music Score)
Franco Fraticelli - Editor
Roberto Pariante - First Assistant Director

Feature Details

Title: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Feature Release Date: 1970
Genre: Horror
Color: Color
Runtime: 98 Minutes
Chapters: 26
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 13 Oct 1998
Catalog Number: RGL9639
UPC: 785604963967
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi
Publisher: ROAN Group

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: RGL9639
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Rare Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket with large split

Tony Musante and Suzy Kendall in...

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

( Catalog Number RGL9639 )
(2.35:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Preview Trailer

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970 - 98 min. - Color
Genre: Horror

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
The first directorial effort by Italian suspense master Argento. An American writer in Italy becomes an amateur sleuth when he witnesses a failed attempt by a serial killer to take the life of the wife of a wealthy gallery owner. A stylish beginning to a distinguished career, featuring the black-gloved killer that became the director's trademark.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
This trend-setting thriller put its director, Dario Argento, on the international map and began a flood of imitative mystery-horror hybrids which dominated Italian genre output in the early 1970s. Tony Musante, best known for the television series Toma, portrays an American who witnesses the murder of a woman at a trendy Rome art gallery. Before long, Musante finds himself targeted by a mysterious killer. Based on a story by Byron Edgar Wallace, Bird and hints at the flamboyance which would become Argento's trademark. This and Argento's subsequent two films Il Gatto a Nove Code and Quattro Mosche di Velluto Grigio were much less horror-oriented than his later work. --- Robert Firsching

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Dario Argento's directorial debut, is the rare serial killer picture that leaves much to the imagination by staging its murders with a minimum of gore and a reliance on strategic camera work. These scenes often have a claustrophobic feel to them, as they focus on hands, knives, and body parts, and use sound and editing to fill in the rest. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro displays his usual command of the visuals, whether he is showing off by having the camera give a point-of-view shot as a man falls to his death or is taking a more subtle approach when cloaking the protagonist in darkness as he is pursued through the streets by a yellow-jacketed assassin. Among the better scenes are: the opening sequence of Sam watching as Monica is attacked in a gallery while he is trapped behind a glass door and unable to help her; the scene where Julia is trapped in her apartment while the killer tries to carve through the door with a knife; and the surprising conclusion. All of these scenes contain the feeling of helplessness in the face of horror, a sense of being unable to prevent violence from happening to others or to oneself. The Bird With the Crystal Plumage looks very much like a product of its time -- the cosmopolitan atmosphere, the ultra-stylish approach to an old genre, and the sense that it is trying to shock its audience with a use of sex and violence (and, at times, a combination of the two) that was probably pushing the envelope in 1969, but which has considerably tamed over time. --- Bob Mastrangelo

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Cast for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Tony Musante - Sam Dalmas
Suzy Kendall - Julia
Eva Renzi - Monica
Enrico Maria Salerno - Morosini
Mario Adorf - Berto
Renato Romano - Dover
Umberto Raho - Ranieri
Carla Mancini
Fulvio Mingozzi
Werner Peters
Dario Argento - Black jacketed killer
Reggie Nalder - Assassin

Crew for The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Dario Argento - Director / Screenwriter
Salvatore Argento - Producer
Vittorio Storaro - Cinematographer
Ennio Morricone - Composer (Music Score)
Franco Fraticelli - Editor
Roberto Pariante - First Assistant Director

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