The 10th Victim (1965)dir. Elio Petri
Before Schwarzenegger was The Running Man (1987). Before reality TV saturated us to the gills with varying degrees of fecal matter. Before something else that has relevance to this argument I'm trying to make, there was Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress in a hunt to the death on national television. It has twists and turns and a who's scamming who that keeps changing up until the closing credits.
In this entertaining satire about the future of television, everyone gathers around to see who will live and who will die as one hunts and one runs. It's a lot of fun and Mastroianni is suave and charming and just one of the cooler guys who ever walked the planet. Andress is sexy and animalistic and could tare a guy apart and every guy would want her to do that. They make a charismatic couple and the chemistry is top notch as they cat and mouse back and forth. It also has some of that fun 60's "In The Future" production design where everyone is wearing hip clothes and lots of bubbles in the set design. It's not as over the top as Danger Diabolik (1996), but still what the kids would call "Retro" today.
Well worth adding
to the collection if just to have playing in the background during a swank cocktail party.
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