When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there, just to annoy his heirs. As a result of his body not being found the latter will have to wait for five years until they can inherit the count's money. Very upsetting indeed, all the more as they are required to keep up the Kéraudren estate in the meantime. To collect money, nephews and nieces organize a Son et Lumière show at the manor while busily looking for the missing corpse. But, unexpectedly, they get killed in turns. Murders or accidents? Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline and his cousin Edwige investigate and finally succeed in exposing the culprit. And, the count's body being found by chance, all goes back to normal.
The movie is a throwback to a time when ordinary people enjoyed simple pleasures like going to their club, or taking in the pictures and growing their chrysanthemums in the adjoining greenhouse garden...so very British.
It is these very ordinary people that some artists have a great sympathy and admiration for in our often self-serving world. Nothing extraordinary about the movie or the couple but almost 60 years on, the acting still makes it a delight to watch.
杰克（伊安·邦纳 Ian Bannen 饰）和麦克（大卫·凯利 David Kelly 饰）做了一辈子的朋友了，彼此之间友谊十分的坚实。两人最大的梦想，就是能够赢得乐透大奖，从此过上不劳而获的生活，可惜这个梦想离他们似乎有点远，也并不太可能通过努力来实现。
一天，当乐透公司宣布了中奖号码后，杰克和麦克震惊的发现，获奖者就住在他们所在的小镇之上，然而，并没有人站出来领奖。经过了细心的排查，杰克和麦克将获奖者的目标锁定在了一个名叫奈德（Jimmy Keogh 饰）的老头身上，当他们赶到奈德家时，却发现他因为兴奋过渡已经死了。一个疯狂的念头出现在了两人的脑海里，他们决定冒充奈德的身份，领取这笔奖金。
Londoner Ronnie embarks on a journey to India when his mother, Suleka, goes missing and mysteriously ends up in a Kolkata hospital. Before Ronnie can unravel the mystery of what brought his mother back to her homeland, Suleka dies in an apparent cult killing. Further deaths point to a series of past murders that stopped 28 years ago when Suleka left India with her infant son. Until now.
As the darkness within Ronnie grows and the murders reach their peak, all roads lead to the feared witch of Kolkata's insane asylum.
昆汗比比(Cunhambebe)是印第安塔穆约(Tamoyo)部落武装反抗葡萄牙人的同盟领袖，这个部落现今分布于里约热内卢至圣保罗之间。根据死里逃生的Cunhambebe俘虏海员施塔登(Hans Staden)的回忆录描述，图皮南巴(Tupinambá)族人是食人族，凶残而且好斗。
1555年法国入侵里约热内卢，塔穆约部落与葡萄牙人联合抗击法国。
由于战争的持续，传教士José de Anchieta 和Manuel da Nóbrega发现了巴西东南面的一个小村皮拉蒂宁卡村（aldeia de Piratininga），此后此处逐渐发展成为了今天的圣保罗。因为Anchieta能够流利的使用图皮语，两人之后进入了Cunhambebe的部族中，并与其达成了一系列协议。1567年，在乌巴图巴(Ubatuba)，他们与Cunhambebe签订了Iperoig条约，条约的签署使得巴西落入葡萄牙人的手中，而且在当地只允许使用葡萄牙语和信奉天主教。在16世纪以前，当地的图皮人一直都是奴隶。
这部电影讲述的便是1594年葡萄牙骑士Estácio de Sá(1520-1567) 试图驱逐法国殖民者，在此之际，由于塔穆约部落的仇敌图皮金人(Tupiniquins)站在葡萄牙人一方，他们感到背叛，于是开始支持法国人。
一位法国人Arduíno Colassanti被图皮南巴俘获。虽然他已自称是法国人，但审判仍判定他是来自葡萄牙，惩罚他为奴隶。Seboipepe的丈夫死于葡萄牙人之手，于是他们结婚，希望得到神灵的复仇。
随后，在一场战役中他用葡萄牙人留下的大炮击败了图皮金人，为了庆祝这一胜利，图皮南巴人决定把他吃掉……
This is an interesting yet bizarre little tale of a fictional (as far as I know, anyway) experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger work-force/army, etc. It's a very in-depth character study of the main character, who tries to fit into a world that she (now 'he') doesn't really understand, especially since she's now a man ... Stalin dislikes the results of the experiments and has the scientist killed. The main character then goes off to live a life as a simple, unknown everyday Soviet, but is inexplicably drawn into larger and larger schemes (somewhat reminiscent of "Forrest Gump" in that way). (s)He has run-ins with different important characters, including his ex-boyfriend from his days of being a woman, as well as going on a demented quest for the nurse with whom he possibly fell in love after the operation... However, he is trapped in his life as an important Soviet married man, and in the end makes a huge sacrifice for his country (unwillingly), and the movie goes from there to an ending that is possibly happy, yet still somehow incredibly depressing.
16岁的美丽少女阿贝尔（琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰）离开了让她倍感压抑的原生家庭，前往伦敦，投奔一个名叫布鲁斯（Jefferson Pascal 饰）男人。很快，这对小情侣就花光了所有的积蓄，为了维持生计，布鲁斯出海成为了一名走私犯，而阿贝尔则在误打误撞之中进了监狱，此时她震惊的发现，腹中已经怀上了布鲁斯的孩子。
在强盗杰克（约翰·拉塞尔 John Russell 饰）的帮助之下，阿贝尔从监狱里逃了出来，之后被杰克卖到了剧院。在那里，阿贝尔邂逅了拉德克里夫公爵（理查德·格林尼 Richard Greene 饰），很快，两人结了婚，阿贝尔一跃成为了公爵夫人。就在这个节骨眼上，布鲁斯再度出现在了阿贝尔的面前，并且向她索要那个属于自己的孩子。
This early 70's giallo by Umberto Lenzi is certainly among the best in his filmography and also in the whole genre. Personally I think Lenzi's best films are the funny cartoon-turned-film Kriminal, the stylish giallo Seven Blood-Stained Orchids, the explosive Napoli violenta and this. In the eighties he did plenty of film trash in form of Eaten Alive, Hitcher in the Dark or Black Demons, all of which are ripping something off and/or very dull and slow moving. Knife of Ice came when the giallo boom was at its hottest and the result is convincing.
Technically the film is superb, containing great cinematography in the beginning when we learn about the main character's trauma towards trains. From this point on, Lenzi shows us his ability to benefit the widescreen and, for example, the bicycle ride near the forest is genuinely beautiful! This scene also shows Lenzi's ability to build suspense, very slowly but meaningfully. After all, there aren't so many murders in the whole film, only the suspense circulating around the murderer's identity.
One suspect is a devil worshipper which brings new aspects to the mystery. Since the final scene takes place in a church, one can wonder if Lenzi wanted to comment on something, maybe the hypocritical morale of church and superstition. The main character (Carrol Baker) is mute which demands a lot from her face and eyes. The actress works very well, giving us a believable performance circulating around the emotions of fear and mental pain. The other actors are good, too. The finally, however, may not give too positive a sight about female sex since they all are expressed rather negatively in the film, one way or another. Still this is easily among the most noteworthy in the genre, not as bloody as the Argento films, for example, but equally suspenseful and visually also interesting.
Bill Kiowa (Montgomery Ford) is released after a five-year prison term for a crime he did not commit. The bandit El Fego (Tatsuya Nakadai), who did the actual crime, also killed Kiowa's young Native American wife. Once free, Kiowa raises a gang to go after the man who framed him. An Italian western in the A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS mold with a better than average cast, which includes Bud Spencer in the debut of his heavy-handed character (later made famous in the TRINITY series) and the outstanding Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai, famous for his role in Akira Kurosawa's KAGEMUSHA. Written by horror-meister Dario Argento and presented here in the English-language version (which, considering it was filmed MOS with an international cast, is nearly as "original dialogue" as its Italian-language counterpart).
