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Venetian Bird
Travelling to Venice to locate an ex-partisan on behalf of a French insurance company, a British private detective gets mixed-up in a political assassination conspiracy.
- Original title
- Venetian Bird
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
- Budget
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Sep 9, 2022 · via TMDB
Richard Todd is PI "Mercer" who is sent to Venice by a grateful French insurer to track down a man whom they want to reward for his sterling service during WWII. On arrival, however, things start to go seriously pear shaped, corpses abound and soon he must stay one step ahead of traitors and police alike as he tries to fathom out what's going on - and to save his own bacon. Despite a cast including a glamorous but rather static Eva Bartok ("Adriana"); an efficient George Coulouris as the dodgy Police chief "Spadoni" and an oddly cast John Gregson ("Uccello") this film doesn't really catch fire. Maybe it's the fallibility of the underlying premiss, or the really stilted performance of Todd - either way, it doesn't really go anywhere for much of it's 95 minutes and but for quite an exciting rooftop chase near the end, would probably sink without trace. The writing and direction needed much more pace, the story isn't developed nearly so much as it could have been and I was sadly disappointed by the rather meagre end product.
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Richard Todd
Edward Mercer
Eva Bartok
Adriana Medova
John Gregson
Renzo Uccello
George Coulouris
Chief of Police Spadoni
Margot Grahame
Rosa Melitus
Walter Rilla
Count Boria
John Bailey
Lieutenant Longo
Sidney James
Bernardo
Martin Boddey
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Raymond Young
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Meier Tzelniker
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Director
Gerald Thomas
Editor
Earl St. John
Executive Producer
Nino Rota
Original Music Composer
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