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Black Gloves il Gatto a Nove Code Release Date:  Arrow Video
Aspect Ratio:  Directed by:  Dario Argento James Franciscus Karl
Malden Catherine Spaak Pier Paolo Capponi Horst Frank Bottom
Line:  Click to Play  After the unexpected success of Dario
Argento’s first film, “The Bird with the Crystal
Plumage”/L’Uccello dale piume di cristallo, in the States and
its subsequent popularity at home, the director’s follow-up
feature, “The Cat O’ Nine Tails”/”Il gatto a nove code” (a title
which paraphrases an Ellery Queen mystery story called A Cat of
Many Tails), and the sophomore entry in Argento’s informal
‘Animal’ Trilogy, feels like a concerted attempt by the young
director to build on his then-growing reputation as the Italian
thriller’s home grown equivalent to Alfred Hitchcock. Less
obviously stylised in the flamboyant fashion of either its
immediate predecessor or its increasingly visually delirious
successors, the film now seems to have been more focu