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A Black Ribbon for Deborah

A Black Ribbon for Deborah(Italian:Un fiocco nero per Deborah) is a 1974 Italianhorror filmdirected byMarcello Andrei.

A Black Ribbon for Deborah
Directed byMarcello Andrei
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Piero Regnoli
  • Marcello Andrei
  • Alvaro Fabrizio
  • Giuseppe Pulieri[2]
Starring
CinematographyClaudio Racca[2]
Edited byGianni Oppedisano[2]
Music byAlbert Verrecchia[2]
Production
company
Paola Film s.r.l.[1]
Distributed byAlpherat
Release date
  • 26 September 1974(1974-09-26)(Italy)
Running time
108 minutes[1]
CountryItaly[1]
Box office₤118.676 million

Plot

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The young Deborah haspowers that allow her to predict the future.When she announces her pregnancy to her husband, he thinks she is crazy, just like the doctors who diagnose her with a hysterical pregnancy. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, Deborah is expecting a child who she will give birth to after a car accident that will cost her her life.

Cast

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Production

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DirectorMarcello Andreiand his co-writers originally conceived the film with an original idea of a dying woman passing the child she is bearing to another person.[3]Giuseppe Pulieri stated that the script he worked one was ruined by a producers attempt to exploit the film as part of the "demonic possession" cycle of films.[3]Pulieri stated that "The script stayed ten years in the drawer, I even pesteredRaymond Strossinto making it, to no avail… they altered the story, the in all the usual bullshit: the witches, the sorcerer, the special effects... "[3]

The film began shooting on May 13, 1974.[3]

Release

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A Black Ribbon for Deborahwas distributed theatrically in Italy by Alpherat on 26 September 1974.[1]The film grossed a total of 118,676,000Italian liredomestically.[1]Italian film historian Roberto Curti described the film as passing "almost unnoticed on its theatrical release".[3]

The film was first released on home video in the United States and the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.[3]It was released in the United Kingdom asThe Torment.[1]

Reception

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AllMoviedefines the film a "low-wattage horror piece".[4]

Footnotes

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  1. ^abcdefCurti 2017,p. 120.
  2. ^abcdeCurti 2017,p. 119.
  3. ^abcdefCurti 2017,p. 121.
  4. ^Erickson, Hal."Deborah (1974)".AllMovie.Retrieved24 June2012.

References

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  • Curti, Roberto (2017).Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979.McFarland.ISBN978-1476629605.
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