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Four Flies on Grey Velvet

4 mosche di velluto grigio

  • Status: Released
  • 17-12-1971
  • Runtime: 104 min
  • Score: 6.5
  • Vote count: 411

Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.

Michael Brandon

Roberto Tobias

Mimsy Farmer

Nina Tobias

Jean-Pierre Marielle

Gianni Arrosio

Aldo Bufi Landi

Pathologist

Calisto Calisti

Carlo Marosi

Marisa Fabbri

Amelia, the Maid

Oreste Lionello

The Professor

Fabrizio Moroni

Mirko

Corrado Olmi

Porter

Stefano Satta Flores

Andrea

Laura Troschel

Maria

Francine Racette

Dalia

Bud Spencer

Diomede / Godfrey

Dante Cleri

Coffin Salesman

Guerrino Crivello

Rambaldi, the Neighbor

Gildo Di Marco

Postman

Tom Felleghy

Police Commissioner Pini

Leopoldo Migliori

Musician

Fulvio Mingozzi

Music Studio Manager

Stefano Oppedisano

Bearded guy with girlfriend

Pino Patti

Funeral Exhibition Attendant

Ada Pometti

Extra (credit only)

Jacques Stany

Psychiatrist

Fortunato Cecilia

Funeral Exhibition Visitor (uncredited)

Franz Colangeli

Funeral Exhibition Visitor (uncredited)

Shirley Corrigan

Girl at Party (uncredited)

Luigi Cozzi

Masked Killer in Theater (uncredited)

Giovanni Di Benedetto

Funeral Exhibition Attendant (uncredited)

Sandro Dori

Funeral Exhibition Attendant (uncredited)

Renzo Marignano

Funeral Exhibition Attendant (uncredited)

Quinto Marziali

Funeral Exhibition Visitor (uncredited)

Diego Morreale

Extra (uncredited)

Anna Maria Perego

Delia's Mother (uncredited)

Pupita Lea Scuderoni

Funeral Exhibition Visitor (uncredited)

Maurizio Streccioni

Funeral Exhibition Visitor (uncredited)

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This could have worked better for me had Dario Argento not cast the pretty hapless Michael Brandon in the lead. He is "Roberto", a drummer in a mediocre rock band who gets it into his head that he is being followed! One night, he lies in wait for and apprehends this man in a derelict opera house - but in the ensuing struggle he manages to stab his phantom and kill him. If that wasn't bad enough, the next day he receives some photographs of him doing that very deed and his is now, of course, ripe for blackmail. But by whom? Why? In any case he'd better find out pronto as gradually we discover that many associated with him are falling foul of his new nemesis too! At times this is actually quite (deliberately) funny. Perhaps a little contrived at times, but there are moments that raise a smile as the characters all trip over themselves to get in (and out) of the action. The ending - well that's a turn up for the books that really does make the film worth sticking with. Not Argento's best work, though quite possibly Brandon's, and though it's a bit too long and a bit thinly spread, it's still just about worth a gander.