This title has been long awaited by many people, and thanks to Shout it has become a beautiful reality.
John Phillip Law stars as international criminal Diabolik, a genius who is always outwitting the police and other underworld mobsters as well. A determined police inspector named Ginko (Michel Picolli) is hot on his trail but continues to fall short of capturing Diabolik.
Fed up with this, Ginko contacts a top mobster in Italy named Ralph Valmont (Adolfo Celi) and blackmails him into helping the police capture the master criminal.
Diabolik continues to steal from the very wealthy and finally gets fed up with people trying to catch him so he blows up almost every government tax building in Italy and throws the country into turmoil. Finally the police manage to track Diabolik and his beautiful lover Eva Kant (Marisa Mell) to their hideout.
In case you've never seen this, I won't give away the ending, but it's very well done, and fits the tone of the film very well.
The direction by the Master of Italian films, Mario Bava is spot on and he really shows his knack for style in film making. The colors are deep and rich and Bava succeeds in making us perfect vouyers when the camera is on Marisa Mell.
Marisa Mell was one of the most beautiful women to ever grace a silver screen and anything with her in it is worth seeing. Sadly she passed away on May 16th, 1992 at the young age of 53. Her performance here is excellent.
The stunning soundtrack by Ennio Morricone is also a joy to hear and the music fits every scene like a glove. The HD presentation of this film should please every fan. A Huge thanks to Shout for bringing the best Fumetti adaptation ever to Blu-ray. The disc also contains a great little documentary on the fumetti comics and Diabolik. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
LONG LIVE THE BEAUTY THAT WAS MARISA MELL!
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