A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.
A lonely widower appeals to the police to find his missing daughter. The sceptical police officer picks up the case but it becomes murder when her body is recovered. Now they must find the culprit before the vengeful father does first. Genre master Duccio Tessari (A Pistol for Ringo, The Bloodstained Butterfly) adapts Italy’s premier noir writer Giorgio Scerbanenco for this investigative thriller. Death Occurred Last Night goes into methodical detail of the investigation before getting to the titular death, focusing much more on character and process. Raf Vallone (The Italian Job) gives a tortured performance as the father, while Frank Wolf (Once Upon a Time in the West) stars as the dedicated cop.
Extras
High Definition digital transfer from the original camera negative
Uncompressed mono PCM audio
Audio essay by Francesco Massaccessi on the importance of Milan in Italian noirs of the period as well as Scerbanenco’s character Duca Lamberti inside and outside his cinematic iterations
Archival interview with Chris Alexander
Original trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters
New and improved English subtitle translation for Italian audio and English SDH for
English audio
Limited edition booklet by David Sodergren
Limited edition of 3000 copies presented in full-height Scanavo packaging
