A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.
- Donatella Berzaghi
- (as Gill Bray)
- Franco Baronia - l'altro
- (as Jack La Cayen)
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- TriviaItalian censorship visa # 56704 delivered on 3-9-1970.
- GoofsA good cop wouldn't wait till they get to the morgue to tell the obviously distraught father of a murdered child that he needn't have come to ID the body since it was burned beyond recognition, as Lamberti does to Berghazi.
- Quotes
Madame: Here, gentlemen, first an aperitif. It stimulates your fantasies. Please! Cheers.
Commissario Duca Lamberti: Cheers. Here are tickets for the "Show."
Madame: The "Show" begins promptly, with the most exceptional girls to be found in Milan at the moment: Giselle, French, full of depraved and morbid fantasies. Erica: Her parents were a typical SS couple in charge of a concentration camp. And this is Hildegarde, as bright and dark as the moment she was conceived, as tall as the Carpathians mountains where she grew up.
Commissario Duca Lamberti: Well, I've always had a thing for tall women.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Italian Gangsters (2015)
Raf Vallone gives a stellar performance as a desperate father who literally begs the local Milanese police commissioner Lamberti (an equally stellar Frank Wolff) to search for his daughter Donatella, who's missing since a month. The case is extra disturbing because Donatella is mentally disabled. She has the mind of a 3-year-old, but with her curvaceous 25-year-old body and her willingness to go along with every random stranger, she's the ideal victim for all the rancid prostitution networks in the city. The first half of the film covers the extended search for the girl, during which commissioner Lamberti and his partner, with the help of a former pimp, turn all the prostitution houses in the city inside out. Then, the inevitable happens, Donatella is found brutally murdered, and the search turns into a relentless hunt for the killer (or killers). Not just the police are searching, but the devastated father is out for justice as well.
"Death Occurred Last Night" is admittedly rather slow-paced, and low in the action department, but the script is indescribably compelling, and also very fascinating, since it gives a lot of insights in police modus operandi. The last 10-15 minutes, when the truth about Donatella's disappearance slowly unravels, are truly haunting and they are likely to cause that you'll never be able to trust anyone in your close surroundings ever again.
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- Also known as
- Das Grauen kam aus dem Nebel
- Filming locations
- San Siro Stadium, Milan, Lombardy, Italy(detectives scope crowd for perps)
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1