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The GialliTally for Silvio Amadio's fourth giallo film, "Smile Before Death" (1972).


"Smile Before Death"
Il sorriso della iena, lit. 'Smile of the Hyena'

After the death of her mother, which was ruled as suicide, a teenage girl comes back home to find her mother's husband, and a female photographer, occupying the house. But nothing is as it seems.

Directed by: Silvio Amadio

Written by: Silvio Amadio [screenplay & story];
Francesco Di Dio (as Francesco Orazio Di Dio) [screenplay];
Francesco Merli [story];
Francesco Villa [screenplay]

Music by: Roberto Pregadio (as Bob Deramont)

CAST
Jenny Tamburi as Nancy Thompson
Silvano Tranquilli as Marco
Rosalba Neri as Gianna
Dana Ghia as Magda
Zora Gheorgieva as Dorothy Emerson
Hiram Keller as Paolo


Marco, a bankrupt nobleman, is unhappily married to the wealthy Dorothy Emerson. Her best friend, Gianna, is his mistress. Marco murders his wife (making it appear to be suicide by slashing her throat with a shard of glass) and becomes the administrator of his wife's estate, with the proviso that Nancy, Dorothy's daughter from a previous marriage, takes over control when she turns twenty. Marco has retired to live with Gianna in a luxurious lakeshore villa.

Marco's daughter Nancy contacts him to notify him that she will be taking control of her mother's estate very soon. Nancy has been living in a boarding school for years and hadn't seen her mother for a long time. Gianna tries to encourage Marco to kill Nancy, since Marco's standard of living will drop severely once she takes over the estate. But Marco ends up falling in love with Nancy, which complicates the proceedings.

LEGACY
One of the Roberto Pregadio cues from the soundtrack, "Iena Sequence," featuring vocals by Edda Dell'Orso, was featured as the first track on the 1996 compilation album Beat in Cinecitta. The song became widely known in America for its use in a 2001 Honda Civic commercial called "Cut It Out," where a teenage boy sitting in a back seat between two girls attempts to take a wide stance and is castigated by his older sister who is driving.


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