What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

Italian film poster
Directed by Massimo Dallamano
Produced by Paolo Infascelli[1]
Screenplay by
  • Ettore Sanzò
  • Massimo Dallamano[2]
Story by Ettore Sanzò[2]
Starring
Music by Stelvio Cipriani[2]
Cinematography Franco Delli Colli[2]
Edited by Antonio Siciliano[2]
Production
companies
Primex Italiana[1]
Distributed by P.A.C.
Release dates
  • 10 August 1974 (1974-08-10) (Italy)
Running time
90 minutes[1]
Country Italy[1]
Box office ₤1.344 billion

What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (Italian: La polizia chiede aiuto) is a 1974 Italian film directed by Massimo Dallamano.[3] The film is about police officers investigating a case of a 14-year-old Silvia Polvesi who was found hanged after receiving an anonymous phone call. After interrogating suspescts and witnesses, a tape is discovered where several sexual encounters are recorded. This leads to police to an underage prostitution ring.

Cast

[1]

Production

The film was shot at Dear Studios in Rome.[1]

Style

The film is considered a hybrid of two genres: the giallo and the poliziottesco.[1] The film was one many of the hybrid giallos made predominantly between 1974 and 1975 when the popularity of the giallo was waning at the Italian box office while the poliziottesco were beginning to gain box office dominance.[1]

Release

What Have They Don to Your Daughters? was released in Italy on 10 August 1974 and was distributed by P.A.C..[1] The film grossed a total of 1,344,301,000 Italian lira on its domestic release.[1]

Reception

In his book Italian Crime Filmography, 1968–1980, Roberto Curti described the film as the best of the giallo and poliziottesco hybrids, stating that "Dallamano's direction is well above average"[1][4] Danny Shipka, author of a book on European exploitation films found the film "doesn't hold as much of a grip as" What Have You Done to Solange? as it foucsed too much on police protocol, but was still "an intense gritty film that deserves to be seen."[3]

Footnotes

References

  • Shipka, Danny. Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980. McFarland, 2011. ISBN 0786448881. 
  • Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968–1980. McFarland. ISBN 0786469765. 

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