Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1970
Country: USA, Italy, West Germany
Runtime: 90
Rating: 8.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Radley Metzger
Sound: Mono
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Writing by: Michael DeForrest – screenplay
Michael DeForrest – story
Radley Metzger – story

Produced by: Radley Metzger – producer

Cast: Silvana Venturelli – The visitor
Frank Wolff – Castle owner
Erika Remberg – His wife
Paolo Turco – Her son

Music: Stelvio Cipriani
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Plot Outline: A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy…
Plot: A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise. She stays overnight, and during her 24 hours in the castle, each of its three residents involves her in a fantasy. She, in turn, keeps asking, “Who has the gun?” Will there be violence before its over?

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Prior to the opening credits being shown, statistics about American campus shootings are displayed onscreen set to shots of the canyons of the Southwest.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: There is a scene in which the Freedom School kids are watching a Freedom School TV interview with Posner on a television atop a tower of equipment. The interview footage had been grafted onto the larger image. In one shot, when the camera pans, the grafted interview footage moves completely off of the TV set and into another part of the shot, then back onto the (originally white-noised) TV screen.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• Delores Taylor claims that the lyrics of “The Theme from The Trial of Billy Jack” came to her in a dream.
• The Indian Rights symposium in the film was unscripted. The testimonials delivered were written by the actual speakers/actors.
• A few months before the release of the film, a potential disaster threatened the success of the release. In “Variety”, director/star/writer Laughlin read the news that the executives in charge of the films distribution, Lou Marx (who was once a top executive at MGM during the studios golden days) and Roger Reese (who was almost single-handedly responsible for the original films financial success) had suddenly quit, and they had done it during a press conference at the National Association of Theater Owners convention in Atlanta, the biggest event of the year for the nations theater owners. The reason they had quit, they announced, was that Laughlin had changed the deal and was now refusing to give distributors the picture without a cash advance. Laughlin regarded it as an outright lie. With this development, Laughlin and wife Delores Taylor knew that their film would be denied exhibition in each of the 1,200 theaters that agreed to show it. The problem was resolved and the film went on to become one of the top money-makers of 1974.