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Actors: Macha Méril, Flavio Bucci, Gianfranco De Grassi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Marina Berti
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Night Train Murders |
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NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS (L'ultimo treno della notte) is an Italian movie cowritten and directed by Aldo Lado in 1975.
The main setting of the movie is a German night train heading towards Italy. Two young girls, Lisa and Margaret, coming home for Christmas, make the acquaintance of Blackie and Curly, two thugs. Blackie has already seduced a widow (Macha Méril) in the train and, soon, the five protagonists decide to share the same compartment.
After a while, Curly, who's on drugs, starts to harass the girls, hits them and finally rapes Lisa with a knife. Margaret escapes from the compartment and jumps from the train only to die on the rocks beneath the railroad line. Then, the three criminals throw Lisa's body out of the compartment's widow.
When they arrive to their final destination, they manage to be invited by Lisa's parents, Giulio and Laura Stradi, who are still waiting for their daughter. Giulio Stradi listens to the radio and understands that his guests are murderers. He decides to take the law into his own hands.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Night Train Murders |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of story:
- rape (yech!)
Criminal enemy is...
- rapist
If this is a criminal POV story...
- killing innocent people
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
- Germany
Misc setting
- moving train
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- touching of personal anatomy
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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