I also love how Bava takes a gesture from Kurosawa's Rashomon and tells this story from multiple perspectives. If you only know Bava for his horror movies, then give this film a spin and see just how versatile he can be. Other Bava films include Shock, Hatchet for the Honeymoon, The Body and The Whip, Black Sunday, and Blood and Black Lace. I am so pleased to own this movie on this format and with the added anamorphic treatment, I am in heaven with this disc. But there is a bad side to this coin, which is the ever present wear and tear evident on this source print.
Some sequences look better than others, but all have a lot of debris and some are covered.
I expected this to some degree, but I had hoped Image had done some restoration work. I think fans will be used to this, but newcomers might be put off somewhat. The colors look bright though, the hues seem bold and flesh tones come off as warm as well. Audio Image has released this film with the original Italian mono track, which should please fans to no end. This is a mono track though, so don't expect much and you won't be let down.