Search - The Bird with the Crystal Plumage on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1969 DVD Release: 11/16/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 38 mins Studio: Vci Video Members Wishing: 8 Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Giallo See Also: The Bird With the Crystal Plumage [Special Edition], The Bird with the Crystal Plumage [Blu-ray]

This trend-setting thriller put its director, Dario Argento, on the international map and began a flood of imitative mystery-horror hybrids which dominated Italian genre output in the early 1970s. Tony Musante, best known for the television series Toma, portrays an American who witnesses the murder of a woman at a trendy Rome art gallery. Before long, Musante finds himself targeted by a mysterious killer. Based on a story by Byron Edgar Wallace, Bird and hints at the flamboyance which would become Argento's trademark. This and Argento's subsequent two films Il Gatto a Nove Code and Quattro Mosche di Velluto Grigio were much less horror-oriented than his later work. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Tony Musante - Sam Dalmas
Suzy Kendall - Julia
Eva Renzi - Monica
Enrico Maria Salerno - Morosini
Mario Adorf - Berto

Fans of Dario Argento's distinctive eye should enjoy the widescreen anamorphic transfer on this DVD of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. The picture looks fantastic and is presented in the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. Supplemental materials include biographies and the original theatrical trailer. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide