Post by theCarbonFreeze on Sept 23, 2021 5:58:01 GMT
I have a huge celebrity crush on Catherine Spaak so I've been trying to track down and preserve as much of her filmography as I can. At the same time, I've come to admire the filmography of Italian director, Pasquale Festa Campanile. They made 4 films together, and for awhile I was only able to get my hands on 3 of them...until now.
Il Marito è Mio e L'ammazzo Quando Mi Pare (1966), which translates as "The Husband is Mine and I'll Kill Him When I Please" was not a lost film per se, but it was 100% unavailable on the internet. (Believe me I looked.) The only way to see this thing was to overpay (including international shipping rates) for a copy of the cheap, long out of print, no-special-features-or-subtitles DVD and pray to God you don't get ripped off or screwed over by postal service. Even though realistically nobody cares but me, on the off chance anyone is interested, I uploaded backups to YouTube and the internet archive. Unfortunately there's no subtitles* but essentially the plot is a straight-forward farcical comedy where CS' character is married to an old man for his money, meets a young guy she'd rather be with, and the two conspire to kill her husband and run away together. There's some nice gags which are universally understandable without the dialogue.
In any case, the sets and overall art direction is great (typical of PFC's films), the soundtrack is great (typical of Armando Trovajoli's work) and Catherine Spaak is gorgeous and charismatic as always. They'd all team up two years later for what is arguably the best soft-core erotica ever made (and one of the few that tackles feminine sexuality in an empowering way), La Matriarca (1968), aka The Libertine. Luckily that film is easily found online and blu-ray in multiple different subs and dubs for English speakers.
*I've seen some sources with posters and lobby cards for an English version of the film called "Drop Dead My Love" but this version, whether it was a dub or sub is absolutely 100% nowhere to be found online either if it was ever released at all.
Here's the Internet Archive Backup
Il Marito è Mio e L'ammazzo Quando Mi Pare (1966), which translates as "The Husband is Mine and I'll Kill Him When I Please" was not a lost film per se, but it was 100% unavailable on the internet. (Believe me I looked.) The only way to see this thing was to overpay (including international shipping rates) for a copy of the cheap, long out of print, no-special-features-or-subtitles DVD and pray to God you don't get ripped off or screwed over by postal service. Even though realistically nobody cares but me, on the off chance anyone is interested, I uploaded backups to YouTube and the internet archive. Unfortunately there's no subtitles* but essentially the plot is a straight-forward farcical comedy where CS' character is married to an old man for his money, meets a young guy she'd rather be with, and the two conspire to kill her husband and run away together. There's some nice gags which are universally understandable without the dialogue.
In any case, the sets and overall art direction is great (typical of PFC's films), the soundtrack is great (typical of Armando Trovajoli's work) and Catherine Spaak is gorgeous and charismatic as always. They'd all team up two years later for what is arguably the best soft-core erotica ever made (and one of the few that tackles feminine sexuality in an empowering way), La Matriarca (1968), aka The Libertine. Luckily that film is easily found online and blu-ray in multiple different subs and dubs for English speakers.
*I've seen some sources with posters and lobby cards for an English version of the film called "Drop Dead My Love" but this version, whether it was a dub or sub is absolutely 100% nowhere to be found online either if it was ever released at all.
Here's the Internet Archive Backup
