LA PORTA SUL BUIO: IL TRAM

Second episode of the television series created and presented by Dario Argento for Rai at the beginning of the 1970s. A girl is murdered on a tram and the delivery boy is accused of her murder. The commissioner in charge of the investigation is not entirely convinced of the suspect's guilt and, with the help of his girlfriend, tries to reconstruct the mechanics of the crime to identify the real culprit. The film is directed by Argento himself under the pseudonym Sirio Bernadotte. It is a decent giallo in pure Argento style, lacking the "violence" of the master's early films (though this is due to the television production of the film). The performers are a decent Enzo Cerusico, as the commissioner, and Paola Tedesco, as his girlfriend.