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1981 thriller film directed by Peter Zinner

The Salamander

Directed by	Peter Zinner
Written by	Robert Katz (screenplay) Rod Serling (adaptation)
Based on	The Salamander by Morris West
Produced by	Erwin C. Dietrich Paul Maslansky
Starring	Franco Nero Anthony Quinn
Cinematography	Marcello Gatti
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Distributed by	ITC Entertainment
Release dates	25 April 1981 (1981-04-25) (UK) 23 May 1983 (1983-05-23) (U.S.)
Running time	96 minutes
Language	English

The Salamander is a 1981 thriller film directed by Peter Zinner in his directorial debut. The film is based on a 1973 novel with the same name by Morris West.

Plot

Policeman Dante Matucci investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. As the body count grows he sees a pattern that might point to a neo-fascist conspiracy to take over the Italian government.

Cast

Franco Nero as Carabinieri Colonel Dante Matucci
Anthony Quinn as Bruno Manzini
Martin Balsam as Captain Steffanelli
Sybil Danning as Lili Anders
Christopher Lee as Prince Baldasar, the Director of Counterintelligence
Cleavon Little as Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
Paul L. Smith as The Surgeon
John Steiner as Captain Roditi
Claudia Cardinale as Elena Leporello
Eli Wallach as General Leporello
Renzo Palmer as Carabinieri Major Giorgione
Anita Strindberg as Princess Faubiani
Marino Masé as Captain Rigoli
Jacques Herlin as Woodpecker
Fortunato Arena as General Pantaleone
John Stacy as Concierge
Gitte Lee as Princess Baldasar
Nello Pazzafini as Manzini's Bodyguard

References

"The-Salamander - Cast, Crew, Director and Awards". The New York Times. 2015-09-26. Archived from the original on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2021-06-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
Bart Mills (November 2, 1980). "AN EDITOR GETS A SHOT AT DIRECTING". Los Angeles Times.
Vincent Canby (June 5, 1983). "Movie Review 'THE SALAMANDER'". New York Times. Retrieved 8 February 2012.

External links

The Salamander at IMDb

v t e Works by Morris West
Novels	Gallows on the Sand (1956) Kundu (1956) The Big Story (1957) The Second Victory (1958) The Devil's Advocate (1959) Daughter of Silence (1961) The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) The Ambassador (1965) The Tower of Babel (1968) Summer of the Red Wolf (1971) The Salamander (1973) Harlequin (1974) The Navigator (1976) Proteus (1979) The Clowns of God (1981) The World Is Made of Glass (1983) Cassidy (1986) Masterclass (1988) Lazarus (1990) The Ringmaster (1991) The Lovers (1993) Vanishing Point (1996) Eminence (1996) The Last Confession (2000)
Novels under pseudonyms	Moon in My Pocket (1945) McCreary Moves In (1958) The Naked Country (1960)
Non-fiction	Children of the Sun (1957)
Film/TV Adaptations	McCreary Moves In (1957) (TV) Children of the Sun (1961) (TV) The Crooked Road (1965) The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) The Devil's Advocate (1977) The Salamander (1981) The Naked Country (1985) The Second Victory (1987)
Radio	The Curtain Rises (1946) The Mask of Marius Melville (1946) Burtons of Banner Street (1947) On the Danube (1948) Dick Barton - Secret Agent Experiment with Time Trumpets in the Dawn (1949) Paradise of Cheats (1949) The Prince of Peace (1950) The Apostle of Peace (1951) The Affairs of Harlequin (1951) White Marriage (1951) The Enchanted Island (1952) The Dreaming City (1952) Secret Mountain (1953) Mystery of Henriette (1953) Man of Two Tribes (1953) Special Assignment (1953) Fire of Etna (1953) The Golden Road (1954) The Dambusters (1954) The Great Escape (1954) There is a Santa Claus (1954) Reach for the Sky (1955) Genesis in Juddsville (1955) The Illusionists (1955) The White Tower (1955) The White Rabbit (1955) Gallows on the Sand (1956) The Big Story (1958)
Plays	The Illusionists (1955) The Devil's Advocate (1961) Daughter of Silence (1962) The Heretic (1970) The World Is Made of Glass (1984)

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