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A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.


“A classic tale of the perverse from director Lucio Fulci.”
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.

Florinda Bolkan
Maciara

Barbara Bouchet
Patrizia

Tomas Milian
Andrea Martelli

Irene Papas
Dona Aurelia Avallone

Marc Porel
Don Alberto Avallone

Georges Wilson
Francesco

Antonello Campodifiori
Police Lieutenant

Ugo D'Alessio
Captain Modesti
Virgilio Gazzolo
Police Commissioner

Vito Passeri
Giuseppe Barra
Don't Torture a Duckling is a horror film released in 1972 exploring themes of police, psychopath, homicide, child murder, forest, murder. Directed by Lucio Fulci, it stars Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian. A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
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