Severin Films Restores Director Eungenio Martin's The Fourth Victim For DVD And Blu-ray Release On Sept. 28

Severin Films, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a new 2K film restoration (from the original 35mm negative) of director Eugenio Martín’s ultra-rare 1971 giallo thriller, The Fourth Victim, starring Carroll Baker, ready for release as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings on Sept. 28.

In 1956, Carroll Baker was nominated Best Actress for her performance in director Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll.   She was 24 years old and for the next ten years she was featured in a series of big-budget Hollywood productions, including The Big Country, How the West was Won, The Carpetbaggers, Harlow and more … and then the “Hollywood” roles began to dry up (she got OLD … mid-30s, that is Hollywood old).

As a result, she did a “Rick Dalton” and moved to Italy, where she quickly picked up the language and starred in a series giallo films — and, we might add, a Spaghetti Western (Captain Apache).  She was sexy, she could do the films in either English or Italian and she was eager to work … and she had a bankable name.

In The Fourth Victim, we meet Arthur (Michael Craig), an Englishman living abroad, who has had a terrible string of luck.   All of his wives have died from tragic accidents.   So sad.   The most recent “victim” is featured in the opening sequence where we see her floating dead in the swimming pool … very suspicious, but Arthur is cleared and charges are dropped.

Upon returning home (we’ve learned in the meantime that he has collected substantial sums from the insurance policies that he had on Mrs. One, Mrs. Two and Mrs. Three), he finds another body in the pool.   Only this one is alive and kicking and her name is Julie (Carroll Baker) … she claims to be a neighbor and was just enjoying the unused pool.  

Without giving the mystery away, Julie and Arthur eventually become a couple and are married.   Will the seductive Julie be the “fourth victim?”   Or, is she up to something … revenge perhaps?   Sept. 28 from Severin to find out!!

Bonus features include both the Italian and English language tracks for the film, a deleted scene and the featurette titled “Eugenio Martín, Auteur.”