Rent The Day of the Owl (1968)
3.6 of 5 from 50 ratings
1h 48min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- The Day of the Owl stars Franco Nero (Django) as a police chief who, while investigating the death of a construction worker, goes up against corrupt officials and a ruthless mafia boss (Lee J. Cobb, On the Waterfront). Adapted from the celebrated novel by Leonardo Sciascia (Illustrious Corpses, Todo Modo), The Dag of the Owl was the first book to openly deal with organised crime in Sicily.
- Actors:
- Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb, Tano Cimarosa, Nehemiah Persoff, Ennio Balbo, Ugo D'Alessio, Fred Coplan, Giovanni Pallavicino, Giuseppe Lauricella, Vincenzo Falanga, Laura De Marchi, Brizio Montinaro, Lino Coletta, Vincenzo Norvese, Serge Reggiani, Adalberto Spadoni, Gaetano Di Leo, Rosanna Lopapero, Giuseppe Namio
- Directors:
- Damiano Damiani
- Producers:
- Luigi Carpentieri, Ermanno Donati
- Writers:
- Ugo Pirro, Damiano Damiani, Leonardo Sciascia
- Aka:
- Mafia / Il giorno della civetta
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Italy
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/07/2023
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono, Italian LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New interview with star Franco Nero, featuring archive footage of Damiano Damiani and Leonardo Sciascia (2022,17 mins)
- Archival interview with Franco Nero, writer Ugo Pirro and production manager Lucio Trentini (2006,27 mins)
- Identity Crime-Sis: filmmaker and Italian crime cinema expert Mike Malloy discusses The Day of the Owl in the context of the formation of the Italian crime film genre (2022,20 mins)
- Casting Cobb: A Tale of Two Continents: A video essay by filmmaker Howard S. Berger looking at actor Lee J. Cobb's career transition from Hollywood to Italy and the archetypes he tended to play (2023,33 mins)
- Archival interview with Claudia Cardinale from Belgian TV in which she discusses her long and storied career (2017,22 mins)
- Trailer
