Five Dolls for an August Moon, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 33 relations: Agatha Christie, AllMovie, Anchor Bay Entertainment, And Then There Were None, Antonio Rinaldi (cinematographer), Banking in Switzerland, Conservation officer, Edwige Fenech, Ely Galleani, Giallo, Gravestone, Guido Malatesta, Howard Ross (actor), Ira von Fürstenberg, Kino Lorber, Lausanne, Mario Bava, Matte painting, Maurice Poli, NTSC, Open relationship, Piero Umiliani, Polyethylene, Resin, Slant Magazine, Sodium thiopental, Tim Lucas, Torre Astura, Truth serum, Valentine's Day, Video Watchdog, Whodunit, William Berger (actor).

2. 1970s mystery thriller films
3. Films directed by Mario Bava
4. Films shot in Lazio
5. Italian mystery thriller films

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

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AllMovie

AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.

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Anchor Bay Entertainment

The revived Anchor Bay Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company owned by Umbrelic Entertainment co-founders Thomas Zambeck and Brian Katz.

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And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, who described it as the most difficult of her books to write.

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Antonio Rinaldi (cinematographer)

Antonio Rinaldi was an Italian cinematographer and camera operator.

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Banking in Switzerland

Banking in Switzerland dates to the early 18th century through Switzerland's merchant trade and has, over the centuries, grown into a complex, regulated, and international industry.

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Conservation officer

A conservation officer is a law enforcement officer who protects wildlife and the environment.

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Edwige Fenech

Edwige Fenech (born 24 December 1948) is a French-Italian actress and film producer.

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Ely Galleani

Ely Galleani (born Federica Elisabetta De Galleani; 24 April 1953), sometimes credited as Justine Gall and Ely Gall, is a retired Italian film actress.

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Giallo

In Italian cinema, giallo (gialli; from) is a genre of murder mystery fiction that often contains slasher, thriller, psychological horror, psychological thriller, sexploitation, and, less frequently, supernatural horror elements. Five Dolls for an August Moon and giallo are giallo films.

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Gravestone

A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave.

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Guido Malatesta

Guido Malatesta (1919 – 14 June 1970), born in Gallarate, Italy, was a film director and screenwriter.

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Howard Ross (actor)

Howard Ross (born Renato Rossini; 10 January 1941) is an Italian film actor.

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Ira von Fürstenberg

Princess Virginia von Fürstenberg (Virginia Carolina Theresa Pancrazia Galdina Prinzessin zu Fürstenberg; 17 April 1940 – 18 February 2024), known as Ira von Fürstenberg, was an Italian socialite, actress, jewelry designer, and public relations manager for the fashion designer Valentino Garavani.

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Kino Lorber

Kino Lorber is an international film distribution company based in New York City.

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Lausanne

Lausanne (Losena) is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud.

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Mario Bava

Mario Bava (31 July 1914 – 27 April 1980) was an Italian filmmaker who worked variously as a director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter.

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Matte painting

A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that is not present at the filming location.

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Maurice Poli

Maurice Poli (2 December 1933 – 26 April 2020) was a French actor, mainly active in Italian productions.

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NTSC

NTSC (from National Television Standards Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published in 1941.

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Open relationship

An open relationship is an intimate relationship that is sexually non-monogamous.

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Piero Umiliani

Piero Umiliani (17 July 1926 – 14 February 2001) was an Italian composer of film scores.

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Polyethylene

Polyethylene or polythene (abbreviated PE; IUPAC name polyethene or poly(methylene)) is the most commonly produced plastic.

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Resin

In polymer chemistry and materials science, a resin is a solid or highly viscous substance of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers.

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Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians.

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Sodium thiopental

Sodium thiopental, also known as Sodium Pentothal (a trademark of Abbott Laboratories), thiopental, thiopentone, or Trapanal (also a trademark), is a rapid-onset short-acting barbiturate general anesthetic.

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Tim Lucas

Timothy Ray Lucas (born May 30, 1956) is an American film critic, biographer, novelist, screenwriter and blogger, best known for publishing and editing the video review magazine Video Watchdog.

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Torre Astura

Frangipani. Torre Astura, formerly an island called by the ancients merely Astura (Greek: Ἄστυρα), is now a peninsula in the comune of Nettuno, on the coast of Latium, Italy, at the southeast extremity of the Bay of Antium, on the road to Circeii.

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Truth serum

"Truth serum" is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive drugs used in an effort to obtain information from subjects who are unable or unwilling to provide it otherwise.

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Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14.

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Video Watchdog

Video Watchdog was a bimonthly, digest size film magazine published from 1990 to 2017 by publisher/editor Tim Lucas and his wife, art director and co-publisher Donna Lucas.

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Whodunit

A whodunit (less commonly spelled—or misspelled—as whodunnit; a colloquial elision of "Who done it?") is a complex plot-driven variety of detective fiction in which the puzzle regarding who committed the crime is the main focus.

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William Berger (actor)

William Berger, also known as Bill Berger and Wilhelm Berger, born Wilhelm Thomas Berger (June 20, 1928 – October 2, 1993) was an American actor, mostly associated with Euro and spaghetti Westerns.

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See also

1970s mystery thriller films

• A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
• Bear Island (film)
• Bloodline (1979 film)
• Chinatown (1974 film)
• Cold Eyes of Fear
• Don't Torture a Duckling
• End of the Game
• Eyeball (film)
• Eyes of Laura Mars
• Family Plot
• Five Dolls for an August Moon
• Fragment of Fear
• Giallo a Venezia
• Hustle (1975 film)
• Jadi Jantem
• Kashmakash (1973 film)
• La casa de las sombras
• La ciudad maldita
• La morte accarezza a mezzanotte
• Murder by Decree
• Night Moves (1975 film)
• Night Watch (1973 film)
• Pretty Maids All in a Row
• Shaft's Big Score!
• Sleuth (1972 film)
• Straight On till Morning (film)
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• The Carey Treatment
• The Conversation
• The Double McGuffin
• The Drowning Pool (film)
• The Groundstar Conspiracy
• The Last Wave
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
• The Man Who Haunted Himself
• The Man on the Roof
• The Power of Darkness (1979 film)
• The Pyx
• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (film)
• The Train (1970 film)
• The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
• When Michael Calls
• When a Stranger Calls (1979 film)
• Winter Kills (film)

Films directed by Mario Bava

• A Bay of Blood
• Baron Blood (film)
• Black Sabbath (film)
• Black Sunday (1960 film)
• Blood and Black Lace
• Caltiki – The Immortal Monster
• Danger: Diabolik
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
• Erik the Conqueror
• Five Dolls for an August Moon
• Four Times That Night
• Hatchet for the Honeymoon
• Hercules in the Haunted World
• I Vampiri
• Kill, Baby, Kill
• Knives of the Avenger
• Lisa and the Devil
• Planet of the Vampires
• Rabid Dogs
• Roy Colt & Winchester Jack
• Shock (1977 film)
• The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963 film)
• The Road to Fort Alamo
• The Whip and the Body
• The Wonders of Aladdin

Films shot in Lazio

• Antropophagus
• Ask Me If I'm Happy
• Bandidos (film)
• Blackie the Pirate
• Cast a Giant Shadow
• Castle of the Living Dead
• Eravamo bambini
• Five Dolls for an August Moon
• Frankenstein all'italiana – Prendimi, straziami, che brucio de passion!
• Interzone (film)
• La bambola di Satana
• Let's Hope It's a Girl
• My Brother, My Sister
• No Peace Under the Olive Tree
• Nonostante
• Nostos: The Return
• Nude for Satan
• Qualunquemente
• Roam Rome Mein
• Rocco and His Brothers
• Sex of the Witch
• Slaughter of the Vampires
• Tea with Mussolini
• The Bridge at Remagen
• The Devil's Brigade (film)
• The First King: Birth of an Empire
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)
• The Inglorious Bastards
• The Leopard (1963 film)
• The Man with a Cross
• The Traffic Policeman
• The Two Colonels
• The Way of the Wind
• The Wonders (film)

Italian mystery thriller films

• A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
• Assassination in Rome
• Blowup
• Cold Eyes of Fear
• Devil in the Brain
• Don't Torture a Duckling
• Everybody Knows (film)
• Eyeball (film)
• Five Dolls for an August Moon
• Footprints on the Moon (1975 film)
• Giallo a Venezia
• I'm Not Scared
• Naples in Veils
• One on Top of the Other
• Run, Psycho, Run
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963 film)
• The Headless Woman (2008 film)
• The Hideout (2007 film)
• The Name of the Rose (film)
• The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Dolls_for_an_August_Moon

Also known as 5 Dolls for an August Moon, 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto, L'île de l'épouvante.