Mill of the Stone Women
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| Directed by | Giorgio Ferroni |
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| Music by | Carlo Innocenzi[1] |
| Cinematography | Pier Ludovico Pavoni |
| Edited by | Antonietta Zita[1] |
| Distributed by | C.D.C.[1] |
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| Budget | ₤164 million |
Mill of the Stone Women (Italian: Il mulino delle donne di pietra ) is a 1960 Italian-French international co-production horror film directed by Giorgio Ferroni. The film stars Pierre Brice and Scilla Gabel.
Released on 30 August 1960 in Italy, the film became the first Italian horror film shot in color.
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Cast
- Pierre Brice as Hans von Arnim
- Scilla Gabel as Elfie Wahl
- Wolfgang Preiss as Dr. Loren Bohlem
- Dany Carrel as Liselotte Kornheim
- Herbert A.E. Böhme as Professor Gregorius Wahl
- Liana Orfei as Annelore
- Marco Guglielmi as Ralf
- Olga Solbelli as Selma
- Alberto Archetti as Konrad
Production
The opening credits of Mill of the Stone Women claim the films plot is based on a short story by Pieter van Weigen in the book Flemish Tales.[2] This is fiction as there is no book by that title or Flemish author by that name.[2]
Shot by director of photography Pier Ludovico Pavoni, this was the first Italian horror film shot in color.[1][3]
Release
Mill of the Stone Women was released in Italy on 30 August 1960.[1] This made it the third locally based horror film released in Italy in August of that year after Black Sunday and Atom Age Vampire.[1][2]
The film grossed higher than both Black Sunday and Atom Age Vampire in Italy with a total of 164 million Italian lira.[1] Roberto Curti, author of Italian Gothic Horror films, 1957–1969, described this gross as disappointing in its home country but more successful abroad where it was distributed by Galatea.[2]
Reception
A contemporary review from Italy in La Stampa, stated that Ferroni directed the film with skill and technique, but the film resorts to cliches of coffins, corpses and screams that make any scary moments less frequent than expected.[4]
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