The Summertime Killer is a 1973 film directed by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi

Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi

Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi is a Spanish film director and producer.He was born in Madrid on March 22, 1927 and began working in the production firm Emisora Films as an assistant manager, film editor, scriptwriter, lead producer, and finally director. In 1955 he founded his own production company,...

 and starring Olivia Hussey

Olivia Hussey

Olivia Hussey is an Argentinian actress who became famous for her role as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Academy Award-winning 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet. For this role she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress as well as the David di Donatello for best actress...

. Other cast members include Chris Mitchum, Karl Malden

Karl Malden

Karl Malden was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks...

, Raf Vallone

Raf Vallone

Raffaele "Raf" Vallone was an Italian footballer, actor and an international film star.Born in Tropea, Calabria, the son of a lawyer, Vallone attended Liceo classico Cavour in Turin, and studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Turin and entered his father's law firm...

 and Claudine Auger

Claudine Auger

Claudine Auger is a French actress best known for her role as Bond girl Dominique "Domino" Derval in the James Bond film Thunderball . She earned the title of Miss France Monde and was also the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest.Born in Paris, France, she attended St...

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Plot

A young boy witnesses mobsters beating his father to death. Twenty years later, he sets out on a quest to eliminate all of the gang members involved in the murder. After an attempt to kill one of them goes wrong he decides to kidnap the man's daughter for ransom. Things get complicated as the two fall in love. Meanwhile, the police are attempting to track them down.

Pop culture

The film's theme "Summertime Killer" by Luis Enríquez Bacalov

Luis Enríquez Bacalov

Luis Enríquez Bacalov is a prolific Argentine, naturalized Italian, composer of film scores. Early on in his career, he composed scores for Spaghetti Western films. In the early 1970s, he collaborated with Italian progressive rock bands. Bacalov has been nominated twice for the Academy Award...

 was used in the Kill Bill, Volume II soundtrack

Kill Bill Volume 2 (soundtrack)

Kill Bill Vol. 2 Original Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the second volume of the two-part Quentin Tarantino film, Kill Bill. First released on April 13, 2004, it reached #58 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the Billboard soundtracks chart in the US. It also reached the ARIA Top 50 album charts in...

. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069457/movieconnections

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069457/
• http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=91887&atid=0
• http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/153797/The-Summertime-Killer/overview