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A man in a mask tells him he must take a detour. His journey must stop temporarily when he reaches a stretch of road before a collapsed bridge. On the streets, he sees mannequins of people and knocks one down. He puts his foot on the accelerator and speeds off irresponsibly with no fixed destination in mind. Toby storms outside and is finally given the keys to the Ferrari. This is followed by a very public breakdown. The actor swigs whisky from his oversize hipflask before taking to the stage to recite some lines from Macbeth. His stand-in enters the venue on horseback. There’s a fashion show interlude with models decked out in futuristic space-age fashions that actually scream 1960s.Īward winners deliver the same short acceptance speech. People tout themselves and family to him hoping he can help their career in some way, though he can’t help himself. Next up on his itinerary is a glitzy cinema awards ceremony.

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He’s whisked off without warning to a TV studio and grilled on a live talk show with rapidfire questions from a variety of hosts. His career is on the slide, presumably due to his large intake of drink and he likely sees this as a final payday. But he is keen to ask about a promised Ferrari sports car. He shows no interest in hearing the details. Thirty Dollars is said to be ‘something between Dreyer and Pasolini, with just a hint of John Ford’ a priest acting as a producer tells Toby. Clint Eastwood incidentally was one of a number of actors considered to play Dammit. It’s easy to see why.ĭammit is in Italy to star in the first ‘Catholic Western’ which seems to be telling the story of a cowboy Christ, its title being Thirty Dollars, which is maybe partly a reference to thirty pieces of silver as well as spaghetti western titles A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. It’s not a universally loved collection but Fellini’s entry has picked up a whole lot of praise over the years. He updated things to contemporary Italy and reputedly didn’t even read the story before making his film. And when I say adapt, I mean adapt in the loosest sense. Originally Orson Welles, Joseph Losey and Luchino Visconti were envisaged to helm the film but in the end Fedirico Fellini, Louis Malle and Roger Vadim did so.įellini has been a fan of the American author since childhood, and he considered a couple of stories – The Tell-Tale Heart and Premature Burial – before deciding to adapt the 1841 short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale With a Moral. The idea of the work was to have three pieces all related by being based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe.

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The film is the third segment of an omnibus movie Spirits of the Dead (or in Italian Tre passi nel delirio). Toby Dammit – now there’s a name I doubt you’ll find in your local phone directory – is played by Terence Stamp, in one of his finest performances. This is a strikingly strange start to any film but things only get more bizarre as events unfold. She says nothing but bounces a white ball.

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Her skin is every bit as pale as his own and her hair is similarly fair. The actor is Toby Dammit, a stressed-out and booze-sodden mess, unravelling at an alarming rate.Īt the top of an escalator, he sees a vision of a pre-teen girl (Marina Yaru) who looks like she might just have stepped off the set of a much more recent J-Horror chiller. Incandescent with rage, he hurls a suitcase at one, hitting and knocking him to the ground. The arrival of a vampiric looking English actor in Rome’s Fiumicino Airport is greeted with paparazzi furiously snapping his picture, their flashbulbs blinding him momentarily.

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