What Have You Done to Solange?
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| Directed by | Massimo Dallamano |
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| Music by | Ennio Morricone[1] |
| Cinematography | Joe D'Amato[1] |
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| Distributed by | Constantin (West Germany) |
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Running time | 103 minutes[1] |
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| Language | Italian |
What Have You Done to Solange? (Italian: Cosa avete fatto a Solange?) is a 1972 Italian-West German giallo film directed by Massimo Dallamano.[2] The film is loosely based on the Edgar Wallace mystery novel The Clue of the New Pin.[1]
Plot
Italian teacher Enrico Rosseni is having an affair with one of his lovely young students. While on an afternoon outing the two lovers learn that a fellow student is brutally murdered mere yards from them. Now other female students are being targeted by a killer with a sinister vendetta and Rosseni is looking like a suspect. The truth is that Solange was badly injured when her female classmates tried to give her an abortion, and she or someone close to her is looking for revenge.
Cast
- Fabio Testi as Enrico "Henry" Rosseni
- Cristina Galbó as Elizabeth Seccles (as Christine Galbo)
- Karin Baal as Herta Rosseni
- Joachim Fuchsberger as Inspektor Barth
- Günther Stoll as Professor Bascombe
- Claudia Butenuth as Brenda Pilchard
- Camille Keaton as Solange Beauregard
- Maria Monti as Mrs. Erickson
- Giancarlo Badessi as Mr. Erickson
- Antonio Casale as Mr. Newton (as Antony Vernon)
- Pilar Castel as Janet Bryant
- Giovanna Di Bernardo as Helen Edmonds
- Marco Mariani as Father Webber
- Emilia Wolkowicz as Ruth Holden (as Emilia Wolkowich)
- Rainer Penkert as Mr. Leach, the headmaster
- John Gayford as Joseph Kane (uncredited)
Release
What Have You Done to Solange? was released on March 9, 1972 in West Germany under the title Das Geheimnis der grünen Stecknadel where it was distributed by Constantin.[1][3]
What Have You Done to Solange? was first released on DVD by Shreik Show on July 30, 2002.[4] It will be released by Arrow Video on Blu-ray and DVD in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2015 and in the United States on December 15, 2015.[5]
Reception
AllMovie called the film a "first-rate thriller," a "creepy mystery", and noted "Massimo Dallamano's direction is assured."[6]
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Das Geheimnis der grünen Stecknadel". Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
- ↑ "COSA AVETE FATTO A SOLANGE?". BFI.
- ↑ Bergfelder 2005, p. 257.
- ↑ "What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) - Releases". AllMovie. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
- ↑ "What Have You Done To Solange? Dual Format DVD and Blu-Ray". Arrow Films. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
- ↑ Firsching, Robert. "What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
References
- Bergfelder, Tim (2005). International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books. ISBN 1571815384.
See also
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