Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor is the tale of Stefano Bruni (Peter Lee Lawrence), who is in Venice to meet with his father who wants him to marry Giovanna Selva (Ivana Novak), the daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur. This arranged marriage would help the Bruni family business. As for Stefano, he is in love with Lidia Caselli (Erika Blanc), but when he goes overseas, he learns from his father that she has died in a car accident.
Stefano begins to date Giovanna but he can't get over the loss of his true love. He even sees her, despite the woman named Renata Pavanne who claims that she's a journalist and has no idea who he is. He's warned off of her by a mobster named Gianni Massara (Fausto Del Chicca). Yet he refuses to give up and the journalist admits that not only is she Lidia, but that she's trapped by Gianni and part of his crimes.
Lawrence and Blanc had already worked together (Love and Death In the Garden of the Gods, The Long Arm of the Godfather, Hell In Normandy) and were close friends. Lawrence died just a few years after this film and according to his wife, Cristina Galbo, he did not commit suicide but instead died of a brain tumor at the way too young age of thirty. In just nine years, he made thirty movies.
The end of this movie is left open to you, the viewer, as Lidia is shot by Gianni and taken to an operating room. It makes you wonder if the world of the movie lives on beyond what we see in the fleeting time we get to know these people.
The film was directed by Giuseppe Pellegrini, who wrote the script with assistant director Dante Cesaretti and production manager Camillo Fantacci. This is the only movie that Pellegrini directed, but he wrote both The Vampire and the Ballerina and The Monster of the Opera.
Stefano begins to date Giovanna but he can't get over the loss of his true love. He even sees her, despite the woman named Renata Pavanne who claims that she's a journalist and has no idea who he is. He's warned off of her by a mobster named Gianni Massara (Fausto Del Chicca). Yet he refuses to give up and the journalist admits that not only is she Lidia, but that she's trapped by Gianni and part of his crimes.
Lawrence and Blanc had already worked together (Love and Death In the Garden of the Gods, The Long Arm of the Godfather, Hell In Normandy) and were close friends. Lawrence died just a few years after this film and according to his wife, Cristina Galbo, he did not commit suicide but instead died of a brain tumor at the way too young age of thirty. In just nine years, he made thirty movies.
The end of this movie is left open to you, the viewer, as Lidia is shot by Gianni and taken to an operating room. It makes you wonder if the world of the movie lives on beyond what we see in the fleeting time we get to know these people.
The film was directed by Giuseppe Pellegrini, who wrote the script with assistant director Dante Cesaretti and production manager Camillo Fantacci. This is the only movie that Pellegrini directed, but he wrote both The Vampire and the Ballerina and The Monster of the Opera.