1968 · crime · comic-book · heist
Diabolik
Directed by Mario Bava1h 44m1968
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.
Our read: Diabolik (1968) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive crime · comic-book · heist entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured crime / comic-book, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
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