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Escalation (1968)
Directed by Roberto Faenza
“They tried to turn him into a sexual square!”
Comedy · 1h 29m
1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties, while his father wants him to take the reins of the family business. He plots to have him kidnapped and placed in a sanitarium, where the young man undergoes electroshock therapy until 'normalised'. Luca is then made to marry a woman who is actually a psychiatrist hired to turn him into a perfect businessman.
Cast
Claudine Auger
Carla Maria Mannini
Lino Capolicchio
Luca Lambertinghi
Gabriele Ferzetti
Augusto Lambertinghi
Didi Perego
Private investigator
Leopoldo Trieste
Priest / Guru
P
Paola Corinti
Augusto's lover
D
Dada Gallotti
Nurse
H
Harold Null
Police sergeant
Jacqueline Perrier
Valeria Lambertenghi
M
Michele Riccardini
Detective
A
Antonietta Fiorito
Lambertenghi employee
Madeline Smith
Girl on Bicycle (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Roberto Faenza
- Screenplay
- Roberto Faenza
- Director of Photography
- Luigi Kuveiller
- Original Music Composer
- Ennio Morricone
- Editor
- Ruggero Mastroianni
- Producer
- Giuseppe Zaccariello
Details
- Release date
- 1968-02-29
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- Cemo Film