Danger: Diabolik

Italian horror-film maestro Mario Bava directed and co-wrote this stylish screen adaptation of a popular European comic strip about the misadventures of a master thief (John Phillip Law). Fast-paced and colorful, Bava gives the film the look of a live-action cartoon. The ethereal score is by Ennio Morricone., Diabolik (John Phillip Law) is the criminal mastermind who has just pulled off a huge heist. He spends most of his free time with his girlfriend, Eva (Marisa Mell), in fond embrace. The police minister (Terry-Thomas) is approached by Valmont (Adolfo Celi), a master criminal who proposes to use his underworld connections to catch Diabolik for the police. In between their gratuitous lovemaking, he and the exotic Eva are chased by police and the mob in this plodding crime drama., Italian horror-film maestro Mario Bava directed and co-wrote this stylish screen adaptation of a popular European comic strip about the misadventures of a master thief (John Phillip Law).