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Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) aka Non si sevizia un paperino, directed by Lucio Fulci, Arrow remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Italian theatrical mono, English mono dub, commentary track, and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069019/
Video encoded in two-pass 13.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : I'm very happy to offer an upgraded encode of one of my very early uploads, and an excellent film at that. If you're mostly used to Lucio Fulci's later gory stuff, you might be surprised at how good this giallo is. It's let down slightly by some laughably wonky effects in the final sequence, but before that, it's an intense serial killer mystery with some exquisite cinematography, great performances, and a few very angry things to say about small towns, the power of the Catholic church, moralism, and judging by appearances. The great cast includes Florinda Bolkan, Tomas Milian, Barbara Bouchet, and Marc Porel. Just very good all around.
In the small town of Accendura, three boys are close-knit friends and get up to mischief like taunting the village idiot when he spies on local men having sex with out of town prostitutes. La Magiara, a "witch", digs up the skeletal remains of an infant, and then creates voodoo dolls of the three boys and stab them with needles. When one of the boys goes missing, reporters from all over Italy arrive to cover the case, and one of them, Andrea, recognizes Patrizia, a woman who used to be a reporter in Milan, but is now hiding out at her father's villa in town after a drug scandal. The locals distrust her for her perceived promiscuity and immodest dress, and she has several ominous interactions with the local children. The boy is found murdered, and a short time later, another boy goes missing. Andrea also meets the local priest, Don Alberto, who lives with his mother and runs a boys' group at church. When the village idiot is arrested trying to retrieve a ransom for the missing boy, he leads the police to the dead body, but they quickly realize he's not the murderer, but was just trying to make a (surprisingly small) amount of money after finding the body. La Magiara is arrested, and when questioned claims her voodoo rituals killed the boys, and the police let her go. However, the locals take things into their own hand and murder her brutally. The police are no closer to finding the killer, and more children keep turning up dead.
This version is a nice upgrade over previous ones, but I think the same transfer was used as a base, and it's still not fantastic. Yet, the color and contrast is nice, grain is fairly subtle, and it's reasonably sharp. Both mono tracks sound good (and both are partially dubbed, since some of the main actors clearly speak English), and the new commentary track is interesting.
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General : Matroska / 10.0 GiB / 1 h 45 min / 13.7 Mb/s
Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@High / 13.0 Mb/s / 1920 x 816 pixels / 2.35:1 / 23.976 FPS / *Default
Writing library : x265 3.5+1-f0c1022b6:[Linux][GCC 13.2.0][64 bit] 10bit
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 243 kb/s / 1 channel / Original Italian theatrical mono / Italian / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 242 kb/s / 1 channel / English mono dub / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 182 kb/s / 1 channel / Commentary by Troy Howarth / English
Text #1 : VobSub / 7.0 kb/s / English for Italian audio
Text #2 : VobSub / 8.0 kb/s / English SDH for English dub
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Program Start - Main Titles
00:03:45.058 : "They're Coming!"
00:05:28.578 : Peeping Tom
00:09:24.731 : Nude Tanning
00:13:20.508 : Victims In the Woods
00:14:21.069 : Searching for Bruno
00:17:58.869 : A Suspect Is Caught
00:22:15.751 : "He Was Already Dead."
00:26:31.215 : Dead Boy In Pool
00:29:44.283 : Consulting With Don Alberto
00:32:40.125 : A Mysterious Phone Call
00:36:29.104 : Michele's Murder
00:37:59.360 : Searching For the Body
00:38:40.610 : "I Used To Take Drugs."
00:40:45.193 : Michele's Funeral
00:44:46.601 : Francesco's Place
00:50:54.051 : Hunting Down Maglara
00:54:45.449 : Confession
01:02:10.727 : Vigilante Justice
01:17:44.326 : Mario's Found
01:19:52.496 : The Lighter
01:22:24.857 : Police Interrogation
01:25:36.089 : A Clue
01:32:40.930 : Mother and Daughter On the Run
01:34:27.453 : Revelation
01:39:20.246 : Fatal Fall
01:41:19.365 : End Credits
Source information
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Encoded from Don't.Torture.A.Duckling.1972.BluRay.Remux.1080p.AVC.FLAC.1.0.2Audio-BeerGAS.mkv [29.0 Mb/s]
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