The Fifth Cord

Released under the more exotic title Giornata nera per l'ariete (Black
Night for the Aries), this early giallo thriller can boast a fine
cast and top creative names. The plot is a tangled string of murders committed
for an almost incomprehensible motive, but it stays on its feet thanks to Luigi
Bazzoni's stylish direction and Vittorio Storaro's atmospheric
cinematography.

Top Italo star Franco Nero is Andre Bild, an alcoholic reporter obsessed with
the murder of a doctor's crippled wife (Rossella Falk,
Modesty Blaise
and the near-fatal clubbing of an Australian English teacher
(Maurizio Bonuglia). They may be only peripheral characters in a tangle of
suspects involved in adultery, blackmail and a secret sex club. Andre is
particularly interested in solving the ca...
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