When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Acting
Sordi's face: comedy mask sliding into tragedy.
Direction
Lattuada's tonal whiplash, pure sadistic craft.
Cinematography
Sicily as beautiful death trap, sun-drenched doom.
Director
Alberto Lattuada
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