The Dead Are Alive

The Dead Are Alive (Italian: L'etrusco uccide ancora / The Etruscan Kills Again) is a 1972 giallo film by Italian director Armando Crispino, with music by Riz Ortolani, and starring Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar and John Marley.^[1][2] It was released in Germany as Das Geheimnis des gelben Grabes (Mystery of the Yellow Grave), in France as Overtime, and in Spain as El dios de la muerte asesina otra vez (The Death God Kills Again).^[3] The film was produced by Artur Brauner and the story was based on a giallo novel written by Bryan Edgar Wallace.^[4]

The Dead Are Alive
Directed by	Armando Crispino
Written by	Bryan Edgar Wallace Lucio Battistrada Armando Crispino Lutz Eisholz
Produced by	Artur Brauner
Starring	Alex Cord Samantha Eggar
Cinematography	Erico Menczer
Music by	Riz Ortolani
Production companies	Inex Film Mondial Televisione Film Central Cinema Company
Distributed by	National General Pictures
Release date	1972 (1972)
Running time	105 minutes
Countries	Italy West Germany Yugoslavia
Languages	Italian English

Cast

• Alex Cord as Prof. Jason Porter
• Samantha Eggar as Myra Shelton
• John Marley as Nikos Samarakis
• Enzo Tarascio as Inspector Giuranna
• Carlo De Mejo as Igor Samarakis
• Horst Frank as Stephen
• Enzo Cerusico as Alberto
• Daniela Surina as Irene
• Vladan Milasinovic as Otello
• Christiane Von Blank as Velia^[5]
• Mario Maranzana as Vitanza
• Pier Luigi D'Orazio as Minelli
• Wendy D'Olive as Giselle
• Ivan Pavicevac as Policeman
• Nadja Tiller as Leni Schongauer Samarakis

Plot

Two young people looking for a place to make love are brutally murdered in an Etruscan tomb which had recently been violated by a group of archaeologists, led by Prof. Porter (Alex Cord). The corpses are positioned so as to indicate they were murdered as sacrifices to the Etruscan Death-god Tuchucha. Several other murders occur, focusing on members of the archeology team and friends of Prof. Porter's. The victims have their heads bashed.