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Argentine beauty Olga Zubarry stars as a cabaret performer trying to protect her young daughter from a mysterious murderer while parrying the advances of the prosecutor pursuing the killer. Nathán Pinzón, who also appeared in Viñoly Barreto's The Beast Must Die a year earlier, gives an impressi...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Vampiro negro (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Argentina Sono Film (film production company.), Film Noir Foundation, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Other Authors: Viñoly Barreto, Román, 1904- (Screenwriter), Etchebehere, Alberto, 1903-1965 (Screenwriter), Zubarry, Olga (Actor), Escalada, Roberto (Actor), Pinzón, Nathán (Actor), Smith, Imogen Sara (writer of supplementary text.)
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:Spanish
Language Notes:Spanish dialogue; English subtitles.
Published: [United States] : Flicker Alley, [2022]
Edition:Deluxe edition.
Subjects:
Vampires > Drama.
Serial murderers > Drama.
Child molesters > Drama.
Women jazz singers > Drama.
Mothers > Drama.
Murder > Investigation > Drama.
Nightclubs > Argentina > Buenos Aires > Drama.
Vampiros > Teatro.
Asesinato > Investigación (Pesquisas) > Teatro.
Horror films.
Feature films.
Monster films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Argentinian.
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Summary:Argentine beauty Olga Zubarry stars as a cabaret performer trying to protect her young daughter from a mysterious murderer while parrying the advances of the prosecutor pursuing the killer. Nathán Pinzón, who also appeared in Viñoly Barreto's The Beast Must Die a year earlier, gives an impressive against-type performance as the disturbed pedophile hiding in plain sight.
"This 'feminist' reworking of Fritz Lang's classic M focuses on the mothers of children stalked by a deranged pedophile."--IMDb.
Item Description:Originally issued as part of Blu-ray disc/DVD dual format edition.
Title from screens.
Booklet (23 pages ; chiefly illustrations (some color) with credits and an essay El Vampiro Negro: a Phantasmagoric Vision by Imogen Sara Smith inserted in comtainer.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
Erroneous listing on container: subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); closed-captioned.
Special features: Introduction by Eddie Muller; The 3 faces of "M"; Art in the blood; audio commentary; souvenir booklet.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages ; 17 cm).
Format:Blu-ray, regions A,B,C; requires Blu-ray player.