Death Laid an Egg
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| Directed by | Giulio Questi |
| Produced by | Franco Marras |
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| Music by | Bruno Maderna |
| Cinematography | Dario Di Palma |
| Edited by | Franco Arcalli |
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110 min. |
| Country | Italy France |
| Language | Italian |
La morte ha fatto l'uovo, internationally released as Death Laid an Egg (aka A Curious Way To Love, Death Trap and Plucked), is a 1968 giallo film directed by Giulio Questi. Written by Questi and Franco Arcalli, the film stars Ewa Aulin, Gina Lollobrigida and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Married couple Anna and Marco run a hi-tech automated poultry farm, breeding boneless chickens. Unbeknownst to Anna, Marco is a serial killer, who lures prostitutes to motel rooms before stabbing them. The arrival of Anna's cousin Gabri further fragments the troubled marriage, as she and Marco begin an affair and conspire to run away together. However, Gabri is actually plotting with her husband Mondaini to kill Anna and frame Marco, as they have discovered Marco's secret. When Marco discovers Anna's body in his hotel room, he cleans the crime scene and takes the body back to the farm to dispose of it. What Gabri and Mondaini do not know is that Marco's fixation is not with killing prostitutes, but simply hiring them to role-play murders, letting them go safely and handsomely paid. At the farm, Marco falls into a machine used to grind chicken feed in which he was trying to dispose of Anna's body. When the police arrive, having responded to the "murder" at the hotel and then coming to the farm to investigate Marco's alleged activities, the police focus their attention on Gabri, suspecting her of committing the murder out of sibling jealousy. Gabri and Mondaini are eventually arrested for Anna's murder, as the farm chickens feed on Marco's ground corpse.
La morte ha fatto l'uovo was directed by Giulio Questi, who co-wrote the screenplay with editor Franco Arcalli. The pair had collaborated the previous year on the spaghetti western film Se sei vivo spara, in the same roles.
La morte ha fatto l'uovo was released in Italy on January 9, 1968. The film has also been distributed internationally under the titles A Curious Way to Love, Death Laid an Egg, Death Trap and Plucked. It was re-released in France as Le Sadique de la chambre 24/ The Sadist in Room 24.
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