The Killer Is on the Phone

The Killer is on the Phone
Directed byAlberto De Martino
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Alberto De Martino
  • Vincenzo Mannino
  • Adriano Bolzoni
  • Renato Izzo[2]
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAristide Massaccesi[1]
Edited byOtello Colangeli[2]
Music byStelvio Cipriani[2]
Production
companies
  • Difnei Cinematografica
  • S.O.D.E.P., Bruxelles[2]
Distributed byJumbo Cinematografica[2]
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Countries
  • Italy
  • Belgium[1]

The Killer Is on the Phone (Italian: L'assassino... è al telefono) is a 1972 giallo film directed by Alberto De Martino. It was released in the U.S. in July, 1975.[3][4][5][6] The film is set in Bruges, Belgium, and stars Telly Savalas and Anne Heywood. The story follows an attractive actress who suffers from amnesia and paranoia triggered by a chance encounter with a professional assassin, who in turn begins to follow her with his knife.

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  2. ^ a b c d e f "L'assassino... è al telefono (1972)" (in Italian). Archvio del cinema italiano. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  3. ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059350.
  4. ^ Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer. ISBN 8820029197.
  5. ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
  6. ^ Giancarlo Grossini (1985). Dizionario del cinema giallo. Dedalo, 1985. ISBN 8822045106.