The 10th Victim

Starring:Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone, Massimo Serato, Milo Quesada, Luce Bonifassy, George Wang, Evi Rigano, Walter Williams, Richard Armstrong (III), Antonio Ciani, Anita Sanders, Jacques Herlin, Wolfgang Hillinger, Mickey Knox
Director: Elio Petri
Studio: Anchor Bay
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Long before reality shows took over the TV airwaves and violent parodies like Series 7 and Battle Royale hit international screens, Elio Petri made this campy social satire of a future in which the bored, the ambitious, and the just plain violent can sign up for a deadly game of cat and mouse. "The Big Hunt is necessary as a social safety valve," explains one TV personality. "Why control births when we can control deaths?" Marcello Mastroianni, who plays the womanizing Italian media darling with a gift for ingenious assassinations, becomes the target of sexy champion Ursula Andress, a New York Amazon with a wardrobe as deadly as it is chic. She'll pocket $1 million if she can successfully kill Mastroianni, her 10th and last victim, but on the side she concocts a deal to do the deed in concert with a live song-and-dance extravaganza mounted by a tea company.

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Long before reality shows took over the TV airwaves and violent parodies like Series 7 and Battle Royale hit international screens, Elio Petri made this campy social satire of a future in which the bored, the ambitious, and the just plain violent can sign up for a deadly game of cat and mouse. "The Big Hunt is necessary as a social safety valve," explains one TV personality. "Why control births when we can control deaths?" Marcello Mastroianni, who plays the womanizing Italian media darling with a gift for ingenious assassinations, becomes the target of sexy champion Ursula Andress, a New York Amazon with a wardrobe as deadly as it is chic. She'll pocket $1 million if she can successfully kill Mastroianni, her 10th and last victim, but on the side she concocts a deal to do the deed in concert with a live song-and-dance extravaganza mounted by a tea company.

Customer Reviews:

Curious movie.......2007-01-06

This movie in true scifi form was quite ahead of its time as far as its theme goes, a tv show in which contestants become assassins of each other and earn a living that way. Last few years, a couple of American movies were made around the same topic. However, they don't have Ursula Andress and Marcello Mastroianni in it and that wonderful 60's wacky visual interpretation of what the future would look like.
Will it ever go this far on tv to satisfy the ever increasing and by the media itself ever stimulated need for thrills and kicks, without which people don't seem to be able to sense they're alive anymore or so we're given to believe? The cynical me and optimistic me have not finished that debate as yet to give an answer.
The acting in this movie is not exactly mindblowing and the movie's main subject is not exactly deeply explored, but it has a lot of curiosity value in that it is rather unique in its depiction of what may be in store for us and is quite entertaining at that.

a real 60's treat.......2006-04-13

Start with Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, and Elsa Martinelli, throw in a fun story and premise, incredibly stylish sets, and you have 60's classic camp. Add in Mastroianni's wonderful, dry wit and self-effacing manner, Andress's beauty and wardrobe, and the deal is done.

The story starts out in the ruins of Penn Station in NYC (demolished in order to put up the ghastly Madison Square Garden which now exists on the spot), which alone makes this DVD worth its reasonable price. It takes place in the future, in a world where violence and war have been eliminated, and human bloodthirst has been redirected towards The Hunt. Victims and hunters are assigned in Geneve and, should a member survive ten hunts, he will be set for life. This is the 10th hunt for both Marcello and Ursula, and the fun ensues as they flirt, deceive, trick, make love, and try to outdo each other in making hilarious commercials.

Pure fun, wonderful acting, beauty and style. Enjoy!

How could the reality shows end one day.......2005-09-29

Well, though with movie is about 30 years old, it can tell much more about our present times then other new movies. We are in the future in this movie, and competitors are sort on killers and victims. But one victim (recent killer) falls in love with woman killer and it's a problem for organizators. If you see line present reality shows, this movie could tell you, how they all would end - in "reality show", there is nothing tabu and there human life has sense only as jackpot.

A 60's Pleasure.......2005-08-31

If you are a fan of:

Marcello at his Mastroianniest
Ursula in full sexual animal mode
60's design and fashion
Dry to the exreme humor
Stylistic Italian direction

Then buy this disc! Oh yea, the story ain't half bad either.

cool.......2005-08-29

From the looks of it, in the future everyone in New York city will speak a lovely fluid international Italian. How cool is that? Marcello slithers in all his glorious sleazy juvenile vanity... Hooray... and, check out the furniture. nice hair too. And ursula zips around like a stray bullit...and everyone lives happily ever after.

The 10th Victim - La Decima vittima (1965)

Average customer rating:

The 10th Victim - La Decima vittima (1965)
Director: Elio Petri
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
Product Features:

* It's the 21st century and they have a licence to kill.
* Unique and bizarre future-world parable

ASIN: B000M8XUC0

Product Description

It's the 21st century, and the dominant worldwide cultural interest is The Big Game, an organized murder system with hunters, victims and prizes. The rules are strict, and killing the wrong person will get you 30 years in prison, but the promoters of the game insist that by channeling mankinds violent tendencies into a regulated sport, wars will be avoided. After successful kills, a pair of ace hunters, Italian Marcello Polletti (Marcello Mastroianni), and American Caroline Meredith (Ursula Andress) square off in a battle of wits. Shes a cold-blooded pro who felled her last opponent with a double-barrelled brassiere; he's in the throes of an annullment while fending off marriage demands from his longtime amante, Olga (Elsa Martinelli). Each contestant is approached by advertisers wanting to make their next kill the centerpiece of an ad campaign: Caroline tries to trick Marcello into a trap set just outside the Coliseum, while Marcello plots to get Caroline into a pool so cameras can record her being eaten by a crocodile, while he recites his advertisers product slogan.

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