La decima vittima (1965)

Country of Origin: Italy / France
Year of Production: 1965
Running Times: 92 mins
Length: 2520 metres
Format: Technicolor     35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Compagnia Cinematografica Champion / Les Films Concordia
Executive Producers (US Version): Joseph E. Levine
Producer: Carlo Ponti
Production Supervisors: Claudio Mancini, Alfredo Melidoni
Production Manager: Jone Tuzi

SCRIPT
Script: Ennio Flajano, Tonino Guerra, Elio Petri, Giorgio Salvioni
Story: The Seventh Victim by Robert Sheckley

DIRECTION
Director: Elio Petri
Assistant Director: Berto Pelosso

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Gianni Di Venanzo
Camera Operator: Pasquale De Santis
Assistant Camera: Mario Masini

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni

MUSIC
Music / Conductor: Piero Piccioni
Song: Sergio Bardotti, Piero Piccioni (Spiral Waltz)
Soloist: Mina

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Carlo Palmieri
Sound: Emilio Rosa, Ennio Sensi

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up For Marcello Mastroianni: Giuseppe Banchelli
Hair: Lina Cassini
Costume Designer: Giulio Coltellacci
Assistant Costume Designer: Enrico Sabbatini

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Piero Poletto
Set Decorators: Giovanni Checchi, Dario Micheli

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Renata Clarici
Production Secretaries: Adriano Pagani, Giorgio Russo
Dialogue Consultant For English Language Version: Mickey Knox

LOCATIONS
Locations: 1285 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

CAST
Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Polletti)
Ursula Andress (Caroline Meredith)
Elsa Martinelli (Olga)
Salvo Randone (Professor)
Massimo Serato (lawyer)
Milo Quesada (Rudi)
Luce Bonifassy (Lidia)
George Wang (Chinese attacker)
Evi Rigano (victim)
Walter Williams (Martin)
Richard Armstrong (Cole)
Antonio Ciani
Mickey Knox (Chet (uncredited))

PLOT SUMMARY

In the near future, the most popular sport is a lethal game where people hunt each other to the death. In Italy, game players have hired film crews to follow them around recording their efforts.

AVAILABILITY

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Planet

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Embassy Pictures Corporation
Video Distributors: Embassy Home Entertainment
DVD Distributors: Anchor Bay (DV11112)

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Argentina
Rating: 18

Finland
Rating: K-16

Portugal
Rating: M/18

Sweden
Rating: 15

UK
Rating: A

TIMELINE

1965
November
26: Italy - passed by the ratings board

December
1: Italy – theatrical release
20: USA – theatrical release

1966
March
24: Denmark – theatrical release

August
5: West Germany – theatrical release

1967
February
10: France – theatrical release

June
19: Sweden – theatrical release

1968
October
11: Finland – theatrical release

2001
June
26: USA - DVD release (Anchor Bay (DV11112))

2004
January
26: Czech Republic – shown at the Febio Film Festival

POSTER TAGS

She'd love to kill him - and kill... to love him!

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

10. uhri - Finnish title
Det 10:e offret - Swedish title
The 10th Victim
La décima víctima - Argentinian title
A Décima Vítima - Portugese title
La dixième victime - French title
Kymmenes uhri - Finnish title
The Tenth Victim – UK title
La víctima número diez - Spanish title
Das Zehnte Opfer - West German title

LINKS

REMAKE
10th Victim (2002)

SEE ALSO
CQ (2001)
Minority Report (2002)
Le prix du danger (1983)
The Running Man (1987)
Series 7: The Contenders (2001)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Cineforum December 1965 p.874 (Italy)
review

Cinema Nuovo January / February 1966 p.56 (Italy)
review

Daily Cinema 13 November 1967 p.6 (UK)
review

Film Daily 27 December 1965 p.11 (UK)
review

Film Français 3 March 1967 p.10 (France)
review

Films and Filming April 1966 p.57 (UK)
review

Jeune Cinéma December 1983 / January 1984 pp.3-4 (France)
review

Kine Weekly 18 November 1967 p.19 (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin January 1968 p.4 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

Motion Picture Herald 5 January 1966 p.435 (USA)
review

Variety 22 December 1965 (USA)
credits, review

BOOKS

Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.96
credits, review

Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies: The Future According to Science Fiction Cinema (Garden City, New York: Doubleday (1984) ISBN: 0385191995)
illustrated article (The Seventh Victim and The 10th Victim by Robert Sheckley)

KEYWORDS

death sports, the future, hunting humans

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009