Review of Strange Shadows in an Empty Room

Aiming for increasing the Canadian cinema industry, they offer 100% of tax income for those filmmakers that decide make a movie there, insofar they hire native actors and the whole production should be made at Canadian ground, fulfilled all requirements it will be fully sponsored by them, it was a perfect environment for Italian filmmakers that was suffering in those years due the Spaghetti genre was in declining process, instead the Poliziottesco genre is growing up.

So a few Hollywoodian stars as Stuart Whitman, Martin Landau and Gayle Hannicutt, also the Italian John Saxon together a Canadian casting by this Giallo-Poliziottesco took place a pristine Montreal nearby Olympic games, about a poisoned girl brother of Capt. Tonny Saitta (Whitman) who playing a sort of Dirty Harry's character trying find out the serial-killer due aftermaths some witness has been murder one by one, the highlights is a breathtaking and endless car chase on Montreal's streets and several spots outskirts of the city.

The thriller is absorbent, a true legacy of Canadian-Italian co-production, even dismissing the tax revenue upon a possible profits, although as long it lasted on late seventies, hereinafter Canada decreased the tax allowance to 50% only, overall a fine entertainment indeed.

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First watch: 2024 / How many:13 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.25.