The Dark Purpose

Shirley Jones plays an innocent young American abroad (Italy, specifically), assistant to the cynically sarcastic art historian Sanders. Shirley Jones, Rossano Brazzi, George Sanders. Turner Classic Movies is broadcasting this bizarrely loopy international production as "Dark.
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A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill the model who When the kids of a young widow inadvertently send an SOS while playing with their uncle Cy's Navy Signal Lamp, the Navy sends their top man to investigate and he falls for their mother.

A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences. Two scam artists prey on women for their money. They clash in a Mediterranean hot spot. Will the cultured, high-class con artist come out on top, or will the rough small-change scammer rise to win the wager?

An aging cowboy finds to his embarrassment that the successful business he has inherited from his brother is actually a house of prostitution. The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.

A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl. An accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-minded women descend upon him. Shirley Jones plays an innocent young American abroad Italy, specifically , assistant to the cynically sarcastic art historian Sanders. She becomes romantically involved with Sanders' current employer, the always charming Brazzi, unaware that he has a dark family secret.

Written by Reader 4. This is one of those Gialli that doesn't have a masked killer slaughtering the cast, but still has plenty of the other elements still intact. It's similar to later films like The Designated Victim and Umberto Lenzi's Oasis of Fear as we're introduced to a limited amount of characters, and are left to figure stuff out as we know for sure something sinister is going on.

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Even though this is a mid-sixties Italian film the setting is not an old castle in Scotland or wherever, but an old mansion on the Amalfi Coast! An English archivist and his young assistant arrive at the mansion of Count Paolo Barbarelli to archive his stuff I guess. Next you know Paolo is giving Karen the assistant the glad eye and making his guard dog eat her shoes so he can buy her a new pair.

Karen wonders who the young lady wandering around the mansion is and Paolo explains that this is just his mentally ill daughter Cora, whom the archivist starts calling 'Lady MacBeth' he's quite funny this guy. Next up Paolo dumps his more mature mistress and starts putting the moves on Karen. If she thinks that being a stepmother to a girl on meds is going to be tough, she's underestimating the circumstances.

I won't go much further with the plot but the whole film starts out like a romantic comedy, starts developing a bit of mystery, and by the last third is wearing it's giallo influence on it's sleeve, what with the pictures that hold clues and the twists and possibly even murder maybe.

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Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I thought the book started off a little slow. I managed about 20 pages before drifting off to sleep. When I picked up where I left off on my Kindle Fire, I had to re-read some pages to remember the story line.

It really did not keep my attention, until about a third of the way into the book. I noticed quickly into the book that there were grammatical errors, such as an added word in a sentence, that caused the sentence to not make sense. In re-reading the sentences to make sense out of it, I realized what the added word was. Having to re-read sentences due to added words, slowed down my reading enjoyment. Also, there were sentences with end quotation marks and no beginning quotation marks.

Again, I would re-read the sentences to figure out what the character had actually said. I am a book worm, I love reading, but having to keep re-reading took some of the fun out of the process. Several times, I even wondered how skilled the editor was, which is something I would rather not think about. I'd much rather just enjoy reading the story. The story itself, was a good story. I don't think I would recommend it.

Not a bad story, just not fun for me to read due to the errors. I really enjoyed this story.

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It was a very good journey to go on. Thx for that to the author. It was by an author who loves God had imagination and kept it biblical with the spiritual stuff. I give this book 5 stars the fact that spiritual wars are going on all the time and the only to fight is through prayer. Wow, what a book, surprising, creepy, cruel - and full of hope, making the unvisible world around us angels and demons visible, taking your emotions on a rollercoaster.

The writing style might not be the best but the storyline is awesome. A really thrilling christian triller. See all 4 reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway.


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