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The Short Night of the Glass Dolls

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The Short Night of the Glass Dolls
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1hr 30min
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1971
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Anchor Bay
Synopsis: A man is found one morning in the bushes of a city plaza in Prague. He is taken to a hospital where the doctors confirm that, although his eyes are wide open, he is dead. There is no heartbeat or sign of life, except, strangely enough, his body temperature is normal. No matter, he's certified as dead and sent into cold storage to wait for an autopsy. "I'm alive," the man thinks, "can't you see I'm alive?" The man, Gregory (Jean Sorel), isn't dead but he's paralyzed and helpless to alert his condition ... Full Synopsis
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The horror elements in Aldo Lado's giallo murder mystery are fiercely strong, not from an onscreen onslaught of blood and guts, but from the tension of the situations Gregory and those around him find themselves in. People around Gregory wind up dead at the hands of unseen killers who are offing them for unknown reasons, until the final sequence when the abstract elements of the film become whole. ... Full Review
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