422 Four Times That Night

[MichaelB]

FOUR TIMES THAT NIGHT
(Mario Bava, 1971, 83 mins)
Release date: 22 June 2026
Limited Edition 4K UHD (World premiere)

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From legendary Italian maestro Mario Bava (Bay of Blood) comes Four Times That Night (Quanto volte... quella notte), a delirious commedia sexy all'italiana take on Rashomon starring Brett Halsey (A Cat in the Brain) and Daniela Giordano (Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key).

Handsome model John (Halsey) takes the virginial Tina (Giordano) on a date. When Tina returns to her overbearing mother in tears, her dress in tatters, everyone has a different account of what really happened that night...

With support from Pascale Petit (A Queen for Caesar), Valeria Sabel (The Godfather Part III), and the infamous Dick Randall (The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield), who also produced, and a luscious soundtrack by Lallo Gori (The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine), Four Times That Night is a pop art-infused feast for the eyes and ears.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES

• Brand-new 4K HDR restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse Films (HDR exclusive to the 4K UHD edition)
• 4K (2160p) UHD presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) (exclusive to the 4K UHD edition)
• Original English and Italian mono soundtracks
• Audio commentary with Italian genre film expert Eugenio Ercolani (2026)
• Audio commentary with Mario Bava: All the Colors of Dark author Tim Lucas (2019)
• Interview with son of editor Otello Colangeli, also an editor in his own right, Roberto Colangeli (2026)
• Interview with assistant director, and son of Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava (2026)
• Video essay by film critic Rachael Nisbet on the Rashomon-like structure of the film (2026)
• Original theatrical trailer
• New and improved English translation subtitles
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Leon Hunt, new writing on the film’s Italian censorship history, archival interviews with director Mario Bava and actors Daniela Giordano and Brett Halsey, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and full film credits
• World premiere on 4K UHD
• Limited edition of 5,000 individually numbered units (4,000 4K UHDs and 1,000 Blu-rays) for the UK
• All features subject to change

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BBFC cert: TBC
REGION FREE
EAN: 5060697925395

[MichaelB]

Mondo Digital:

In 2026, Indicator released the most extensive special edition of the film by a long shot as separate UHD and Blu-ray options featuring a new 4K restoration of the film from the original negative with both the complete 83-minute Italian or 81-minute English versions for the first time. Both are worth checking out as they feature exclusive footage, and it's great to finally have those English scenes (the most memorable involving some same-sex steaminess with Skay) in nice quality here at last.

To clarify, after inspecting the source materials we decided that the most sensible course of action was to simply reproduce the US and Italian release versions and not create a hybrid extended version that would inevitably involve a mid-point language switch (because both the English and Italian dubs were recorded to differently cut versions and are therefore each missing chunks)—and since the English and Italian dialogue is really strikingly different at times, this would have been especially clunky.

Accordingly, the US version features English-language titles, English-dubbed dialogue, plus two extended softcore sex scenes, but does not feature the extended presentation by the scientist, who is reduced to the briefest of cameos. This comes with optional SDH subtitles that default to "off".

Conversely, the Italian version features Italian-language titles and Italian-dubbed dialogue, but omits the extended softcore sex scenes (which were cut by Italian censors), but which features the scientist's presentation in full. This comes with optional translation subtitles that default to "on".

This has all been seamlessly branched, so when it comes to the bulk of the main feature you're watching exactly the same encode regardless of which version you pick.

Oh, and in common with a great many commercial Italian films from this period, there's no "original language"—some of the actors are clearly speaking English, some equally clearly Italian, others presumably something else. Ironically, I think the scientist was speaking English on set, even though most of his part was never dubbed in that language. But what's interesting here is that the English and Italian scripts sometimes differ quite markedly—for instance, in the second story, Tina's mother briefly mentions that she's a widow in the English version, but in the Italian version she mentions that her husband killed himself, and brings up that subject three times.