George Lazenby, in a career-defining departure from his role as James Bond 007 (On Her Majestys Secret Service), delivers a powerful, gutsy performance in Aldo Lados chillingly disturbing giallo masterpiece, WHO SAW HER DIE? Lazenby portrays Franco Serpieri, a sculptor recently separated from his wife (Anita Strindberg). He invites their young daughter, Roberta (Nicoletta Elmi), to spend time with him in an autumnal Venice. As father and daughter joyfully make up for lost time exploring the city, their idyllic bonding is shattered when Roberta becomes the target of a dangerous child-killer lurking in the citys foggy canals. Consumed by grief and driven by a thirst for justice, a tormented Franco embarks on his own investigation, uncovering vicious depravity in the highest echelons of Venetian society controlled by a Machiavellian art-dealer Adolfo Celi (Largo in 007s Thunderball). Bearing striking and uncanny similarities to Nicolas Roegs later film, Dont Look Now, Lados WHO SAW HER DIE? delves into a fathers haunting guilt within a spellbinding giallo mystery. Enhanced by Ennio Morricones eerie score and Franco Di Giacomos (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly) evocative cinematography, it showcases the giallo genre at its most chilling and captivating.
