Mill of the stone women / an Italo-French co-production, Wanguard Film-Faro Film, Explorer Film - Rome, C.E.C. Paris ; screenplay by Remigio del Grosso, Ugo Liberatore, Giorgio Stegani, Giorgio Ferroni ; directed by Giorgio Ferroni. English language version by John Hart ; English language version director, Richard McNamara.
Container of (work): Mill of the stone women (Motion picture) Container of (expression): Mill of the stone women (Motion picture). French. Container of (work): Mulino delle donne di pietra (Motion picture) Container of (expression): Mulino delle donne di pietra (Motion picture). English. Container of (expression): Mulino delle donne di pietra (Motion picture). French.
Notes:
Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel, Wolfgang Preiss, Danny Carrell, Liana Orfei, Marco Guglielmi, Herbert Boehme, Olga Solbelli, Alberto Archetti. Title from container. Credits from English export version. Originally released as a motion picture in 1960. "To legitimize the movie as a believable Gothic yarn, the opening credits boast a foreign literary source, a short story of the same name in Pieter van Weigen's collection 'Racconti flamminghi (Flemish Tales).' Too bad neither the book nor the author exists, the script being the work of Remigio Del Grosso, Ugo Liberatore, Giorgio, Stegani and the director, from a story by Ferroni and Del Grosso"-- from Roberto Curti's essay in the accompanying booklet, page 9. Wide screen (1.66:1). Special features (disc 1): audio commentary by Tim Lucas, author of 'Mario Bava: all the colors of the dark'; "Mill of the stone women & the Gothic body," a new visual essay on the trope of the wax/statue woman in Gothic horror by author and critic Kat Ellinger; "Turned to stone," a newly edited featurette containing archival interviews with actress Liana Orfei and film historian Fabio Melelli; "A little chat with Dr. Mabuse," an archival interview with actor Wolfgang Preiss; alternate opening titles (UK "Drops of Blood" titles, German titles); trailers; image galleries. Accompanying booklet includes: Blood from stone: Giorgio Ferroni's 'Mill of the stone woman' / by Roberto Curti -- Multiple mills: the many versions of 'Mill of the stone women' / by Brad Stevens -- Contemporary reviews.
Contents:
Disc 1: The Italian (96 min.) & English export (96 min.) versions -- Disc 2: The French (90 min.) & US (95 min.) versions.
Summary:
Young art student Hans von Arnam arrives by barge at an old mill to write a monograph about its celebrated sculptures of women in the throes of death and torture, maintained and curated by the mill's owner, the hermetic Professor Wahl. But when Hans encounters the professor's beautiful and mysterious daughter Elfi, his own fate becomes inexorably bound up with hers, and with the shocking secret that lies at the heart of the so-called Mill of the Stone Women.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1325707062
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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