Nancy Allen	Liz Blake
Michael Caine	Doctor Robert Elliott
Angie Dickinson	Kate Miller
Keith Gordon	Peter Miller
Dennis Franz	Detective Marino
David Margulies	Dr. Levy
Ken Baker	Warren Lockman
Susanna Clemm	Betty Luce
Brandon Maggart	Cleveland Sam
Amalie Collier	Cleaning Woman

Regisseur	Brian De Palma
Produzent	George Litto
Autor	Brian De Palma

To condemn Dressed to Kill as a Hitchcock rip-off is to miss the sheer enjoyment of Brian De Palma's delirious 1980 thriller. Hitchcockian homages run rampant through most of De Palma's earlier films, and this one's chock-full of visual quotes, mostly cribbed from Vertigo and Psycho. But De Palma's indulgent depravity transcends simple mimicry to assume a vitality all its own. It's smothered in thickly atmospheric obsessions with sex, dread, paranoia, and voyeurism, not to mention a heavy dose of Psycho-like psychobabble about a wannabe transsexual who's compelled to slash up any attractive female who reminds him--the horror!--that he's still very much a man.

Angie Dickinson plays the sexually unsatisfied, fortysomething wife who's the killer's first target, relaying her sexual fantasies to her psychiatrist (Michael Caine) before actually living one of them out after the film's celebrated cat-and-mouse sequence in a Manhattan art museum. The focus then switches to a murder witness (De Palma's then-girlfriend Nancy Allen) and Dickinson's grieving whiz-kid son (Keith Gordon), who attempt to solve the murder while staying one step ahead (or so they think) of the crude detective (Dennis Franz) assigned to the case. Propelled by Pino Donaggio's lush and stimulating score, De Palma's visuals provide seductive counterpoint to his brashly candid dialogue, and the plot conceals its own implausibility with morbid thrills and intoxicating suspense. If you're not laughing at De Palma's shameless audacity, you're sure to be on the edge of your seat. --Jeff Shannon

Details der Edition Audience Rating R (Restricted) Land USA Sprache English Edition Special Edition Barcode 027616865526 Region Region 1 Erscheinungsdatum 28.08.2001 Verpackung Keep Case Bildformat Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed) Widescreen (16:9) Tonspuren Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Layer Einseitig, single layer Anzahl Disks/Bänder 1 Bonusmaterial Theatrical Trailers

Persönliche Details Gesehen Ja Standort Kellerkieferregal Boden 2 Links IMDB