''Play Motel'' is a 1979 Italian
giallo film
In Italian cinema, ''Giallo'' (; plural ''gialli'', from ''giallo'', Italian for yellow) is a genre of mystery fiction and thrillers that often contains slasher, crime fiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, and, l ...
written and directed by
Mario Gariazzo
Mario Gariazzo (4 June 1930 – 18 March 2002) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 21 films between 1969 and 1992. He also directed 18 films between 1962 and 1992. He was born in Biella, Italy and died in Rome, Italy at ...
(credited as Roy Garrett) and starring
Anna Maria Rizzoli
Anna Maria Rizzoli (born 26 August 1951, in Rome), is an Italian actress.
Rizzoli started her career as glamour model and in the second half of the 1970s entered the cinema industry, becoming a star of the commedia sexy all'italiana. She also wo ...
and
Ray Lovelock.
''Play Motel'' was released on blu-ray in a region 1 release by Raro Video in August 2015. The release contains an extra feature of the hardcore inserts.
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Plot
Patrizia and Roberto, theatrical actors and spouses, after having stayed at the Play Motel, accidentally find a body in the trunk of their car. They leave the car at the scene and go to call the police, and when they arrive, they discover with amazement the removal of the body, which is then found in a completely different place: the police then discover that it was Maria Luisa Longhi, wife of Commendator Rinaldo Cortesi. At the request in particular of Patrizia, the two spouses improvise as investigators to help the police solve the case.
Cast
* Anna Maria Rizzoli
Anna Maria Rizzoli (born 26 August 1951, in Rome), is an Italian actress.
Rizzoli started her career as glamour model and in the second half of the 1970s entered the cinema industry, becoming a star of the commedia sexy all'italiana. She also wo ...
as Patrizia
* Ray Lovelock as Roberto Vinci
* Mario Cutini as Willy
* Antonella Antinori as Anna De Marchis
* Patrizia Behn as Maria Luisa Longhi
* Enzo Fisichella as Commendator Rinaldo Cortesi
* Marina Hedman
Bellis Marina Hedman, also known as Marina Frajese, Marina Lotar and Marina Lothar (born 29 September 1944 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a retired Swedish pornographic and mainstream actress.
Life and career
Hedman, who had been a well-known model, ...
as Loredana Salvi
* Marino Masé
Marino Masè (21 March 1939 – 28 May 2022) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than 70 films.
Life
Masè was born in Trieste on 21 March 1939. While still a teenager, he joined the laboratory for young actors of the production company ...
as Massimo (Max) Liguori
* Patrizia Webley
Patrizia Webley (born and sometimes credited as Patrizia De Rossi, 1 December 1950) is an Italian actress. She acted mainly in horror films and erotic films.
Career
She began her career as an actress in Italian erotic comedies in 1975 with the ...
as Valeria Marzotti
* Vittorio Ripamonti as ing. Guido Toselli
* Anthony Steffen
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as Commissioner De Santis
* Mario Novelli
Mario Novelli (26 February 1940 – 21 August 2016) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1962. He died on 21 August 2016.
Filmography
References
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1940 births
Italian male film actors
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as The Doorman
See also
* List of Italian films of 1979
A list of films produced in Italy in 1979 (see 1979 in film):
References Footnotes
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External linksItalian films of 1979at the Internet Movie Database
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References
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1970s crime thriller films
Giallo films
Films directed by Mario Gariazzo
1970s Italian-language films
1970s Italian films
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