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Una lucertola con la pelle di
donna (1971)
Country of Origin: Italy / France / Spain
Year of Production: 1970
Running Times: 88 mins (Spain)
95 mins (Italy) 96 mins (USA)
100 mins (UK) 101 mins (France)
Format: colour 35mm
Techniscope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: International Apollo / Les Films
Corona / Atlántida Films
Executive Producer: Renato Jaboni
Producer: Edmondo Amati
Production Manager: Renato Jaboni
Assistant Production Manager: Luis Mendez
Unit Managers: Agostino Pane, Jose Garillo
SCRIPT
Script: Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, José Luis
Martínez Mollá, André Tranché
Story: Lucio Fulci, Robert Gianviti
DIRECTION
Director: Lucio Fulci
Assistant Director: Giorgio Gentili
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Luigi Kuveiller
Camera: Ubaldo Terzano, Saturnino Pita
Assistant Camera: Santiago Gomez, Antonio Annunziata,
Gianni Bonivento
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: Vincenzo Tomassi
Editor: Jorge Serralonga
Assistant Editors: Rita Antonelli, Lea Piras
MUSIC
Musical Director: Bruno Nicolai
Music: Ennio Morricone
Vocal Soloist: Edda Dell'Orso
Music Published By: General Music (Rome)
Conductor: Bruno Nicolai
SOUND
Sound: Massimo Jaboni
Synch: Pinewood Studios,
Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Franco Di Girolami
Assistant Make Up: Gloria Fava
Hair: Rosa Luciani
Costume Designer: Maurizio Chiari
Costumes for Bolkan: Lancetti, Rome
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Carlo Rambaldi, Eugenio Ascani
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Maurizio Chiari
Set Designer: Maurizio Chiari
Assistant Set Designer: Roman Calatayud
Set Decorator: Nedo Azzini
Assistant Set Dresser: Claudio De Santis
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Roberto Giandalia
Production Secretary: Roberto Carpentieri, Enrique Bellot
LOCATIONS
Locations: Dear Center, Rome; Woburn Abbey, England;
London, England
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: The Duke and Duchess of Bedford for their
co-operation and permission to photograph their property
of Woburn Abbey; with special thanks to Scotland Yard for
their kind assistance given to the troupe during shooting
CAST
Florinda Bolkan (real name: José Soara Bulco) (Carol
Hammond)
Stanley Baker (Inspector Gorman? Corvin?)
Jean Sorel (Frank Hammond)
Leo Genn (Edmund Brighton, Carol's father)
Alberto de Mendoza (Sergeant Brandon)
Silvia Monti (Deborah)
George (real name: Jorge) Rigaud (Doctor Kerr)
Penny Brown (Jenny)
Edy Gall (real name: Elide de Galleani) (Joan Hammond)
Mike Kennedy (Hubert, a hippie)
Anita Strindberg (Julia Durer)
Franco Balducci (McKenna, a policeman)
Ezio Marano (Lowell, Scientific Squad)
Gaetano Imbró (policeman)
Ersi Pond (real name: Eszra Paal) (Mrs Gordon)
Luigi Antonio Guerra (policeman)
Jean Degrade (St Paul's Clinic director - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Carol, the daughter of a British politician, suffers recurring nightmares
in which she attends drugs parties held by the lesbian who lives in
the flat below hers and ends up making love with her. In her dreams,
she eventually kills the woman who turns up dead in the real world too,
stabbed with Carol's letter opener. A traumatised Carol begins to doubt
her own sanity - did she kill her and just how real were the dreams
all along?
CAPSULE REVIEW
Several years before he embarked on his series of lucrative and popular
zombie films, Fulci made this eccentric but beautifully made giallo.
Its torturous plot demands plenty of attention - which isn't necessarily
rewarded it must be said - and although it fails to scale the heady
heights of the contemporary Dario Argento
films, it makes good use of its London locations and the hallucinatory
dream sequences are suitably surreal.
AVAILABILITY
France
Theatrical Distributor: Inter-Ecran
Italy
Theatrical Distributor: Fida Distribuzione
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Atlántida Films
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Gala
USA
Theatrical Distributor: American International Pictures
Video Distributor: Video Search of Miami
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
France
Rating: 18
Italy
Rating: 18
Spain
Rating: 18
UK
Rating: X
USA
Rating: R
TIMELINE
1971
February
17: Italy - theatrical release
October
15: Spain - theatrical release (in Madrid)
1973
June
Day Unknown: UK - theatrical release
Day Unknown: USA - theatrical release
1976
August
Day Unknown: France - theatrical release (in Paris)
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Carole - French title
Femme serpent - French title
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin - UK /
US title
Una lugartija con piel de mujer - Spanish title
Les salopes vont en enfer - French title
Schizoid - US title
Le venin de la peur - French title
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror p.236
credits, review
Beyond Terror pp.276
credits, review
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films
p.420
credits
MAGAZINES
Bianco e Nero vol.32 no.3/4 (March /
April 1971) p.107 (Italy)
credits
Cinema d'Oggi 1 March 1971 p.4 (Italy)
review
CinemaTV Today 9 June 1974 p.19 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review (by Marjorie Bilbow)
European Trash Cinema vol.2 no.6 pp.14-15
(USA)
review
Filmfacts no.4 (1972) (USA)
illustrated synopsis, credits
Intermezzo no.5 (March 1971) p.8 (Italy)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.40 no.474 (July
1973) p.150 (UK)
synopsis, credits, review (by John Raisbeck)
Spaghetti Cinema no.65 (August 1996)
pp.34-35 (USA)
credits, article / review (by William Connolly)
Starburst no.64 p.42 (UK)
note
Variety 21 April 1971 (USA)
review (by Werb)
NEWSPAPERS
Los Angeles Times 29 September 1971 (USA)
review (by Kevin Thomas)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS
giallo, lsd, drugs, hallucinations, lesbianism, police, dreams, london,
dogs
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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