The Weapon, the Hour & the Motive
| The Weapon, the Hour & the Motive | |
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| Directed by | Francesco Mazzei |
| Written by | Francesco Mazzei Marcello Aliprandi Mario Bianchi (screenplay) Bruno Di Geronimo (screenplay) Vinicio Marinucci (screenplay) |
| Produced by | Francesco Mazzei |
| Starring | Renzo Montagnani Eva Czemerys Bedy Moratti |
| Cinematography | Giovanni Ciarlo |
| Edited by | Alberto Gallitti |
| Music by | Francesco De Masi |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
L'arma, l'ora, il movente, internationally released as The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive, is a 1972 Italian giallo film produced, co-written and directed by Francesco Mazzei. It is the first giallo that showed a corrupt priest as victim of a crime, a plot that would become a topos of the genre. Co-plotter Marcello Aliprandi went on to create another similar film in 1982, involving murder and Catholicism, entitled The Vatican Conspiracy.