Word: narizzano
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by SILVIO NARIZZANO Screenplay by RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON
...point of the late Joe Orton's play Loot-not the only point, but a prominent one-was outrageous and exhilarating bad taste. Director Silvio Narizzano, no stranger to bad taste himself (Georgy Girl, Blue), changes Orton's cyanide cocktail into a fey demolition derby...
Loot looks like an unlikely hybrid of the Marx Brothers, Agatha Christie and a training film for the Mattachine Society. Narizzano has directed the bad taste in bad taste, clumsily camping it up at every opportunity, blunting Orton's coruscating wit. That this comes through at all is owing less to Narizzano than to the play's admirable resiliency...
...interval in the questioning, Attenborough boasts that it was he who solved the notorious riddle of "the limbless girl killer." "Who'd want to kill a limbless girl?" asks O'Shea sympathetically. "Oh, she wasn't the victim," Attenborough replies. "She was the killer." Not even Narizzano can curdle an exchange like that...