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Thank you for providing a link for Janice and her readers to “La Punition”, Katie. Yes, it seems we have remarkably similar eccentric interests in films. If you decide to watch a krimi, I would recommend starting with one of Alfred Vohrer’s films. He was the best of the krimi directors, with a sure sense of pacing, although he is not in the same class as Mario Bava. Lea Lander, who was the saviour of “Rabid Dogs”, was also, as you know, a leading character in “Blood and Black Lace”. It shows Bava’s phenomenal range that he could make such very different pictures. There was a French remake of “Rabid Dogs”, filmed in Quebec, with Lambert Wilson. It is not bad, and pumped money into the Canadian economy, but it can’t really compare to Bava’s film, since it lacked the historical context of a contemporary Italy strained to the limit by the Red Brigades and other forms of lawlessness. Good luck with your Italian, and I hope you do become fluent soon. I never heard of “All the Colors of the Dark” or of its female star, but I will certainly watch it soon. I see that is easy to find; it is on the Internet Archive. Today is Karin Schubert’s birthday, but, quite shamefully, imdb.com has omitted her from its list of important celebrity birthdays! Bonne chance!

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