Uncut Crystal…Dario Argento’s Bird with the Crystal Plumage uncut for the first time on UK DVD and Blu-ray

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UK 2001 Arrow R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon for release on 2nd May 2011 UK 2011 Arrow R0 DVD at UK Amazon for release on 2nd May 2011 Based on article from bbfc.co.uk

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is a 1969 Italian/West German thriller by Dario Argento. See IMDb The Unrated Version was passed 15 uncut for: UK 2001 Arrow R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon for release on 2nd May 2011 UK 2011 Arrow R0 DVD at UK Amazon for release on 2nd May 2011 All previous releases have been cut. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com 24.5s removed of the killer cutting the slip and then ripping the panties off a victim. 1.5s of cuts to an elevator scene showing a woman having her face slashed with a razor. Review from US Amazon: Engrossing Mystery Even those who don’t care for writer-director Dario Argento’s later baroque extravaganzas may warm to his debut feature, a well-received thriller in which an American writer living in Rome (Tony Musante) witnesses an assault on a woman in an art gallery and is subsequently targeted by the would-be assassin, a crazed psychopath who’s been terrorizing the city with a series of brutal murders. Typical of an Argento thriller, the hapless hero’s investigation unleashes a cycle of violence which culminates in a climactic unmasking that will take some viewers completely by surprise. Argento’s first film is a fairly straightforward thriller with horror asides, anchored by a strong narrative, an increasingly bizarre series of supporting characters, and a strong Everyman hero who slots the puzzle together piece by piece before realizing that the most important clue to the killer’s identity was there in front of him all the time. Musante is given excellent support by English actress Suzy Kendall as his girlfriend (the scene in which she’s besieged alone in her apartment as the killer hacks through the door with a knife is truly the stuff of nightmares) and Enrico Maria Salerno as the cop charged with finding the killer before he/she strikes again. Producers were unconvinced of his directorial abilities and wanted to pull him off the picture during the first few weeks of shooting, but Argento persevered under an iron-clad contract and ultimately proved his critics wrong with the finished product, a genuinely engrossing mystery punctuated by scenes of explicit horror.