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Actors: Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Ivan Rassimov, Conchita Airoldi
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh |
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THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH, was directed by Sergio Martino in 1970.
Julie and her husband Neil Wardh have just arrived in Vienna, Austria. While a serial killer is terrorizing the city, Julie starts a love affair with the handsome George Corro and tries to avoid the company of Jean, a former lover who keeps harassing her. Julie had to break their relationship a few months before because of Jean's sadistic sexual games (hence the title of the movie).
When a young girl Julie met at a party and her closest friend Carol, George Corro's cousin, are stabbed, Julie assumes that the serial killer and Jean are the same person. One night, she's aggressed by a masked man with a razor in the parking of her residence. Her husband Neil decides then to go to Jean's with Julie and they found there Jean's corpse lacerated in his bathtub. Julie, who starts to suffer from hallucinations, decides to leave Neil and accompany George Corro to Spain. There, she reads in the newspaper that the Austrian serial killer has finally been liquidated by his last prey. But, when Julie thinks that all this nightmare is at last over, she receives flowers with a note written by the man who tried to kill her in Vienna.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- hunted by killer/stalker
Criminal enemy is...
- known killer
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- long, straight (woman)
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Spain
- Austria
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Kind of violence:
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- crushed
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Italian
Subtitles?
- Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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