The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

1970 [ITALIAN]

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

25
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 80% · 39 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 26809 26.8K

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Plot summary

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite he and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

Director

Dario Argento Photo
Dario Argento

Top cast

Tony Musante Photo
Tony Musante as Sam Dalmas
Giovanni Di Benedetto Photo
Giovanni Di Benedetto as Professor Rinaldi
Carla Mancini Photo
Carla Mancini as Girl watching TV
Mario Adorf Photo
Mario Adorf as Berto Consalvi
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay 2160p.BluRay
883.94 MB
1280*544
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles it  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 3
1.61 GB
1920*816
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles it  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 24
4.37 GB
3840*2160
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles it  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Captain_Couth 8 / 10

Argento makes a name for himself with this slickly directed Giallo.

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) was the film that made Argento a european sensation. His murder/mystery T.B.W.T.C.P. was hailed as a success and made him a star. This tense film is about a american who's caught up in a mysterious murder case. He decides to play Sherlock Holmes and find out who did it. A cool soundtrack, nifty direction and camera work makes this one and interesting watch. Recommended for Giallo fans and admirers of Dario Argento.AP.S. Watch out for people in brown raincoats who are armed with shiny cutlery!
Reviewed by petra_ste 7 / 10

Spry Argento

There is a moment in Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage where Tony Musante's hero is wandering the streets of Rome as evening looms, desperately searching for a missing woman, and the camera pulls aways from him, lost in a maze of buildings, then slowly focuses on a window in the midst of many others, where - we understand at once - the victim's time is running out. It's elegant and nightmarish at the same time, the kind of shot Hitchcock would have thought of.Argento's debut is breezy, gripping, and - unlike everything he has done from the Nineties on - has aged extremely well: a tight thriller filmed with style and intelligence.7,5/10
Reviewed by arthurconnor 8 / 10

Argento's First Big Splash

An American writer witnesses an attempted murder and gets on the wrong side of the attacker as they try to finish him off to keep him from investigating any further.While not as explicit as future gialli, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage ushered in a new kind of suspense film. It's violent, gory, and overtly sexual at times. The major twist is a real shocker.
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