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After tossing down a Hazen's breakfast, rough, tough, but sensitive young here Kyle Arnon, (STEPHEN D. LERNER '68) enters Phillips Book Store. Little does he know that his life will be unalterably changed this day. The "Sinister Madonna" will pass his way and he will be inextricably caught in her web of evil...
...Sinister Madonna" is also the name of the first movie produced by the Ivy Film Society. The president of the society, Timothy Hunter '68, is behind the camera. He's the director and writer of his saga of the very near east...
...liveliest of the film's ten encounters, Director Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street, The Organizer) exuberantly parodies such earthy Sicilian comedies as Pietro Germi's Seduced and Abandoned. Posing as a doctor, Mastroianni offers his protection to a dishonored country girl (Yolanda Modio) and becomes so inflamed by the nearness of her murderous menfolk that he begins biting buttons off her dress. Another stylishly funny sequence, indebted to Fellini, drums up elegant corruption at a villa where a deaf aristocrat's mistress (Marisa Mell) tries to persuade Mastroianni to kill for her. In pursuit...
...beach house, the lady reveals that her whim for today is rough stuff in a sleazy motel room-a touch of aberration that is clue to a conventional surprise ending. In the last episode, Modern People, directed with rich detail and folksy color by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), a cheese dealer (Ugo Tognazzi) offers his wife to a creditor in payment of his gambling losses, only to learn the high cost of cuckoldry...
...Cimabue's Madonna, $20 million...