Five Dolls for an August Moon 1970 123movies

Watch: 5 bambole per la luna d’agosto 1970 123movies, Full Movie Online – George Stark is a wealthy industrialist who invites five business friends of his to his remote Mediterranean island for a weekend of relaxation and business when he introduces them to Professor Farrell, a brilliant chemist who gives investment ideas to the group. But against Farrell’s wishes, the group goes behind each other’s back to obtain information on Farrell’s chemistry ideas and soon the guests and residents start turning up dead one by one as Stark and Farrell must rally the group together to determine the identity of the killer (or killers) despite nobody trusting anyone..
Plot: A wealthy playboy gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated beach house for a weekend of relaxation. When bodies start pilling up, they realize they’re trapped with a killer in their midst, sending them in a frenzy to figure out who amongst them is killing the others before they are killed next.
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Bava and Edwige: A Winning Combination

* Plot: (from IMDb) George Stark is a wealthy industrialist who invites five business friends of his to his remote Mediterranean island for a weekend of relaxation and business when he introduces them to Professor Farrell, a brilliant chemist who gives investment ideas to the group. But against Farrell’s wishes, the group goes behind each other’s back to obtain information on Farrell’s chemistry ideas and soon the guests and residents start turning up dead one by one as Stark and Farrell must rally the group together to determine the identity of the killer (or killers) despite nobody trusting anyone.

* Most people I know would list Five Dolls for an August Moon as among their least favorite film that Mario Bava made. Bava himself considered it his worst (I guess Bava never had the misfortune of watching his movie Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs). I, however, do not agree. It has a funky, late 60s/early 70s feel to it that I just love. Everything about the movie is the absolute height of fashion from that period. The clothes, the people, the house, the music, the attitudes, etc. can best be described as “groovy”.

* Those who like a lot of gore with their killings may be disappointed by all of the off-screen murders. The aftermath of a couple, however, are fairly gruesome. But those with a morbid sense of humor will get a kick out of watching the bodies pile-up in the freezer. Just imagine the sight of five or six bodies wrapped in plastic being placed on meat hooks one at a time in a freezer while accompanied by some less than appropriate music. I just love it. Another plus for Five Dolls for an August Moon is the presence of Edwige Fenech. Similar to what I stated when writing about The Case of the Bloody Iris, Edwige makes any movie a better movie.

* While this movie may not be for everyone, if you’re a fan of Bava, Edwige, or funky 70s movies, you might find something here to enjoy.

bad taste can be so good
The late Italian director Mario Bava (1913-1980) made a handful of genuinely great films, like Black Sunday, Lisa and the Devil, and Blood and Black Lace, along with many that almost transcend kitsch, i.e. Diabolik and Black Sabbath, and some that are simply wonderful kitsch. Of the third category, this may be the best example.

A group of rich, decadent swingers in the most tasteless fashions of the time (the year is 1970) cavort about on an island owned by one of them. One guest is a scientist with a formula that could be worth a fortune. When he refuses to sell the formula, everybody on the island starts dying one by one (a la Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians,) the bodies literally piling up in the meat locker, just one example of the hilariously dark humor Bava brings to this dubious premise.

Bava made no bones about this movie being a paycheck job, or of his shame for it – the script was atrocious, the producer refused to let him have any say in the casting, or let Bava use most of his usual crew, and budget cuts forced the director to have almost every murder take place offscreen. But Bava’s films always had a misanthropic wit(except Black Sunday, with its clear-cut good versus evil scenario,) and in the case of “Five Dolls For An August Moon,” it almost seems like the director’s contempt for the project actually made the end result funnier and more brazen than expected. Bava had a technical facility that most money-burning present day directors would kill for, and a complete lack of pretensions to being anything other than a hard-working director for hire. When the chemistry was just right, it could create a glorious bauble (or, less often, something even better.)

Is it good? Well, as the saying goes, how could something so right be so wrong?

Other Information:

Original Language it
Runtime 1 hr 22 min (82 min), 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (France)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director Mario Bava
Writer Mario di Nardo, Mario Bava, Agatha Christie
Actors William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, Edwige Fenech
Country Italy
Awards 1 win
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,777 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm