Danger: Diabolik

A master thief, Diabolik (John Phillip Law), and his beautiful girlfriend (Marisa Mell) are pursued by a police inspector (Michel Piccoli) and gangster (Adolfo Celi) while staging eye-popping, large-scale heists. Based on the popular Italian comic series, the key work in the formation of the fumetti neri subgenre, Bava’s psychedelic and often delirious adaptation provides a model for bringing graphic art to the screen.

Featuring a striking score by Ennio Morricone, and produced by Dino De Laurentiis as a companion piece to the same year’s Barbarella, it has gone on to be regarded as one of the key cult movies of its era.