Danger: Diabolik

Director: Mario Bava

1968 / 105min / Digital

Better known for his excursions in the horror genre, Bava’s excursion into the crime caper—and his lone trip to Hollywood—produced this eye-popping pop art curio, an adaptation of an Italian comic book series underwritten by producer Dino De Laurentiis, fresh off the success of Barbarella, and featuring one of Ennio Morricone’s most exuberantly experimental scores. Arch-criminal Diabolik (John Phillip Law) and his girlfriend Eva (Marisa Mell) stay one step ahead of Michel Piccoli’s Inspector Ginko in this garishly colored, kinetic masterwork of cinematic artifice and amoral indulgence.

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