Four Times That Night

(aka "Four Times That Night" or "Quante volte... quella notte" or "Vier Mal heute Nacht")

directed by Mario Bava
Italy | West Germany 1972

Imagine Rashomon remade as a tame and frivolous '60s sex comedy and shot with the zoom happy, retina-challenging elan characteristic of the director. We're offered four accounts of the same evening out: she describes a farcically failed rape, he a seduction; the lewd night porter tells of another couple and a same-sex pairing off, while a psychiatrist infers chaste abstention. The audience may prefer a fifth version where the cast is massacred by one of Bava's mad axemen; though let's spare Pascale Petit, a starlet ten years earlier and about to become surplus to requirements, still spirited and good humoured in her final role.

Excerpt from TimeOut Film Guide located HERE

Poster

Theatrical Release: 15 July 1972 (Italy)

Reviews More Reviews DVD Reviews

DVD Comparison:

Image Entertainment - Region 0 - NTSC vs. Anchor Bay (Mario Bava Collection Volume 2) - Region 1 - NTSC

Big thanks to Gregory Meshman for all the Screen Caps!

(Image Entertainment - Region 0 - NTSC - LEFT vs. Anchor Bay (Mario Bava Collection Volume 2) - Region 1 - NTSC - RIGHT)

DVD Box Covers
Distribution	Image Entertainment Region 0 - NTSC	Anchor Bay Region 1 - NTSC
Runtime	1:22:48	1:22:45
Video	1.78:1 Original Aspect Ratio 16X9 enhanced Average Bitrate: 5.58 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s	1.78:1 Original Aspect Ratio 16X9 enhanced Average Bitrate: 6.3 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s
	NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
Bitrate: Image Entertainment
Bitrate: Anchor Bay (Mario Bava Collection Volume 2)
Audio	Italian (Bolby Digital 1.0 Mono)	Italian (Bolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Subtitles	English, None	English, None
Features	Release Information: Studio: Image Entertainment Aspect Ratio: Widescreen anamorphic - 1.78:1 Edition Details: • Mario Bava Biography and Liner Notes by Tim Lucas • Director Filmography • Photo & Poster Gallery DVD Release Date: November 28, 2000 Snapper Case Chapters 10	Release Information: Studio: Anchor Bay Aspect Ratio: Widescreen anamorphic - 1.78:1 Edition Details: • None DVD Release Date: October 23, 2007 Slimline Chapters 16

Comments

The transfers are almost identical except Anchor Bay did a little of digital clean up and has a bit less marks.

Image disc has a few extras including informative liner notes by Tim Lucas, so it doesn't warren the upgrade just for the film - unless you want to get other films from Anchor Bay's box set.

- Gregory Meshman

DVD Menus
(Image Entertainment - Region 0 - NTSC - LEFT vs. Anchor Bay (Mario Bava Collection Volume 2) - Region 1 - NTSC - RIGHT)