Gli assassini sono nostri ospiti (1974)

Franco (Gianni Dei), Eliana (Margaret Lee) and Mario (Giuseppe Castellano) rob a jewelry store, shooting numerous people and barely escaping with their lives. Their driver isn’t so lucky and Franco has also been shot. Commissario Di Stefano (Luigi Pistilli) has shut the streets down and put roadblocks everywhere, so they decide to hide in the home of Dr. Guido Malerva (Anthony Steffen), holding him hostage and forcing him to heal Franco. Then the doctor’s wife, Mara (Livia Cerini) comes home and the robbers realize that they’re in the midst of a fight that has been going on for a long time, but they have to be patient and wait for their boss Eddy (Sandro Pizzocchero).

Director Vincenzo Rigo only made two other movies — Passi furtivi in una notte boia and Lettomania — but this is an interesting movie shot almost all within one room. He wrote the script along with Renato Romano (Dorian Gray) and Bruno Fontana (the director of The Dirty Seven AKA Emanuelle: Queen of the Desert and the writer of Joe D’Amato’s Ossessione fatale and Escape from Women’s Prison).

Not a typical giallo, this is close to a film noir. Also: Pistilli has some amazing sideburns.

You can watch this on YouTube.

One thought on “Gli assassini sono nostri ospiti (1974)

  1. “An interesting movie shot almost all within one room” is a high bar to clear! It sounds like this is a cross between a giallo, “Reservoir Dogs,” and “The Ref”!

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