The Film Source Collection
1970 / 78 mins / Color / Not Rated
Alfredo
Leone presents
FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON
Starring
Wiliam Berger, Edwige Fenech
and Ira von Furstenburg
Edited and Directed by Mario Bava
Written by Mario di Nardo
Produced
by Luigi Alessi
Music by Piero Umiliani
Synopsis:
George
Stark, a wealthy industrialist and playboy, gathers a group of bourgeois friends
at his isolated island beach house for the weekend. His guest of honor is
Gerry Farrell, a brilliant chemist who has discovered a remarkable new formula
for a synthetic resin. Moody over the fate of a colleague who died while helping
him to develop the formula, Farrell doesn't care to discuss business, but
the other businessmen in attendance are determined to talk money - in the
millions.
Each of them angers the others with secret bids and overbids, spawning an
atmosphere of distrust. There is also enough sexual intrigue in the air, between
the men and their various wives and mistresses, to complicate suspicions when
the guests begin to turn up dead, one by one!
Mario Bava strikes again - and again, - in this stylish and wicked whodunnit.
