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Without Apparent Motive

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Description

The fashionable and affluent in the French Riviera city of Nice now have a baffling new problem: random assassination. While the Mystery Object television show is in town, being shot in a public square, a shocking mystery unfolds at the feet of the irascible, steely Inspector Carella. As general panic mounts and national attention focuses in, someone with a high-powered rifle keeps deftly executing seemingly unconnected people in broad daylight. Ignoring the meddling of his superiors, Carella desperately pushes his team harder, despite some of Nice's most formidable citizens flatly refusing to talk. Something has to connect the victims, but what could it be?

A hybrid of the giallo and the French policier, Without Apparent Motive (Sans mobile apparent) adapted the novel Ten Plus One by famed American author Evan Hunter (under the pen name Ed McBain), while also featuring several notable Italian cast and crew members. The film's French leads, Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Great Silence) and Dominique Sanda (The Conformist), are complemented by Italian actors Laura Antonelli (Malicious) and Carla Gravina (Tony Arzenta), and a score by the legendary Ennio Morricone (The Stendhal Syndrome). Director Philippe Labro (The Hunter Will Get You) helms this procedural, set against a gruesome reality contrasted with a lush, stylish city. Vinegar Syndrome Labs is excited to uncover this Euro-thriller for its US disc premiere.

Details

Director(s): Philippe Labro

Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Paul Crauchet, Carla Gravina, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Laura Antonelli

Release Year: 1971

Runtime: 101 min

Aspect Ratio(s): 1.66:1

Language(s): FRA- French

Sound: Mono

Subtitles: English

Format: Blu-ray

Disc Info: Region A Blu-ray

Restoration: Newly restored by Vinegar Syndrome from a studio-supplied master

Packaging Artist(s): Robert Sammelin

Genre: Drama, Thriller

SKU: VSL-025 SLIP

Bonus Content

Archival interview with director Philippe Labro from 2018 (51 min)
"The Uncredited Rémoleux" (38 min) - film historian Christophe Bier on the prolific career of uncredited actor Jean-Claude Rémoleux
Reversible sleeve artwork

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Label Bio

Welcome Vinegar Syndrome Labs (VSL) to the VS Sub-Label family! As with each of our sub-labels we are hoping to expand and defy expectations with the diversity of films we restore and release. As the name implies, VSL will serve as a kind of testing area for releasing genres and eras of film that one might not immediately expect to come from VS. The ultimate objective of VSL will be to see if these types of films will find an audience, and if so, pursue and release more of them…and even if not, still serve as a means of restoring more of the weird, rare, and unusual movies you might not expect from Vinegar Syndrome.