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Don't Torture a Duckling
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
1972 · Directed by Lucio Fulci · 105 min · Horror · 11 frames
Tagline
A classic tale of the perverse from director Lucio Fulci.
Crew
- Screenplay: Gianfranco Clerici, Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti
- Cinematography: Sergio D'Offizi
- Edited by: Ornella Micheli
- Music: Riz Ortolani
- Production design: Pier Luigi Basile
Cast
- Florinda Bolkan as Maciara
- Barbara Bouchet as Patrizia
- Tomas Milian as Andrea Martelli
- Irene Papas as Dona Aurelia Avallone
- Marc Porel as Don Alberto Avallone
- Georges Wilson as Francesco
- Antonello Campodifiori as Police Lieutenant
- Ugo D'Alessio as Captain Modesti
- Virgilio Gazzolo as Police Commissioner
- Vito Passeri as Giuseppe Barra
Production
- Country: Italy
- Language: Italian
- Studios: Medusa Produzione
- Themes: police, psychopath, homicide, child murder, forest, murder, reporter, whodunit, orphan, church
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