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Dec 21, 2014 - 12:07 AM
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Bob DiMucci
(Member)
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BLUEBEARD was a 1972 French-Italian-German coproduction produced by Alexander Salkind, who later in the 1970s would have his greatest successes with THE THREE MUSKETEERS, THE FOUR MUSKETEERS, and SUPERMAN. BLUEBEARD was helmed by veteran director Edward Dmytryk, his first film since 1968’s SHALAKO. The film was made on location in Budapest and Rome, with interiors at DEAR S.P.A. Studios in Rome. BLUEBEARD was one of three Richard Burton films to be distributed by Cinerama Releasing in 1972, the others being HAMMERSMITH IS OUT and THE ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY. Virna Lisi played one of seven women who are victims of the murderous lover.
While discussing the film with a reporter, Dmytryk remarked that “The picture was made purely for entertainment. I expect the critics to rap us.” He was correct—the film took a critical drubbing. The New York Times called it a “foolish camp horror film,” the Los Angeles Times called it “124 minutes of unrelieved boredom and morbidity,” and Roger Ebert termed it “sheer awfulness.”
The film has been released on DVD twice—in 2000 by Anchor Bay and in 2007 by Lionsgate. Ennio Morricone’s score has been on CD a number of times, most recently in 2011 from GDM.
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