6.6 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Thriller Starring Henry Silva and Barbara Bouchet. She Left Prostitution only to find Murder! Shes a former prostitute, now married to a gang boss dealing in black market currency and illicit drug traffic. He is a cold-blooded killer: a 'mob hitman' sent to Italy to pacify rival gangs impeding on Mafia operations, when the ex hooker falls for the underworld assassin all hell breaks loose as the rival gangs turn the tables & make him their target.
Starring: Henry Silva, Barbara Bouchet, Fausto Tozzi, Vittorio Sanipoli, Mario LandiCrime | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
None
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A, B (C untested)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 1.0 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Andrea Bianchi's "Cry of a Prostitute" (1974) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Code Red. The supplemental features on the release include original English/international credits for the film and vintage U.S. trailer. In English, without optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-Free.
The fixer from out of town
Presented in an aspect ratio of 2.35:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Cry of a Prostitute arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Code Red.
Cry of a Prostitute was remastered in 2017 and initially appeared on an exclusive release that was not sold at Amazon. This release is sourced from the same master but is available for purchase at various etailers, including Amazon.
The master is good and has strong organic qualities, but there are quite a few rough spots on it. These are minor spots that reveal small surface wear or damage which I did not find distracting at all, but they are unmissable. Delineation, clarity, and depth range from good to very good. I very much like how the master was graded as well. There is some room for minor improvements in terms of saturation, plus ideally a few ranges of supporting nuances should be better, but the overall color balance is very nice. Image stability is good. There are absolutely no traces of problematic digital corrections. However, there is room for encoding optimizations that could have made the visuals appear even stronger and more attractive. (Note: My release is Region-Free, but I am unsure if all market copies are Region-Free because apparently the release should be Region-A "locked". So, if you are importing from outside of North America, please check region compatibility to be sure that your disc is playable on a Region-B player).
There is only one standard audio track on this Blu-ray release: English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. Optional English SDH subtitles are not provided for the main feature.
The dialog is easy to follow. However, as is usually the case with Italian genre films from the '70s, the English track features plenty of original overdubbing, which means that you should expect to encounter some minor unevenness. The upper register seemed healthy enough, but there small cosmetic work could have been done to ensure that it is cleaner and better rounded. Dynamic intensity is good. However, you will encounter some inherited dynamic unevenness as well.
I was finishing work on this article when I heard the sad news that Henry Silva had passed away at the age of 95. He was a tremendous but underappreciated on this side of the Atlantic character actor that appeared in various very special genre films. In Cry of a Prostitute, Silva plays a mafia hitman who is dispatched to the south of Italy, near Palermo, where he grew up, to do a risky job that transforms him into a vicious monster. This is a wild action thriller that is not easy to recommend to viewers that get their entertainment from mainstream films, but it is precisely what makes it unique and worth seeking. I think that it features one of Silva's most unhinged performances. RECOMMENDED.
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