Death Occurred Last Night (1970)

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.LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES: High Definition digital transfer from the original camera negativeUncompressed mono PCM audioAudio essay by Francesco Massaccesi on the importance of Milan in Italian noirs of the period as well as Scerbanenco’s character Duca Lamberti inside and outside his cinematic iterationsArchival interview with Chris Alexander Original trailerReversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original postersNew and improved English subtitle translation for Italian audio and English SDH for English audioLimited edition booklet by David SodergrenLimited edition of 3000 copies presented in full-height Scanavo packaging