ADE DURING the interruption in the shoot- ing of Il rosso segno della follia was Four Times That Night, Bava’s only foray into that sala- cious staple of Italian cinema—the sex comedy. The English title is proper, since the film was scripted in English and funded by North American producers. Primary among these was Dick Randall, a rotund,
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FOUR TIMES THAT NIGHT
PROMOTIONAL color collage featuring Brett Halsey and Daniela Giordano in FOUR TIMES THAT NIGHT.
cigar-smoking, Canadian expatriate who had been co- producing nudie films in France and Italy for America’s burgeoning “Adults Only” audience since the early 1960s. Among his first films were Shangri-La (1961), Paris Ooh-La-La (1963), and Primitive Love (1964), which had starred Jayne Mansfield and Bava’s Goldfoot co- horts Franco and Ciccio. Born in Ontario on August 14, 1925, Randall sometimes wrote and played cameo roles in his films, and he also occasionally worked under the aliases Robert Randall and Claudio Rainis, the lat- ter (presumably a reference to the star of The Invisible Man) used for his production credits on Italian films.