History Film / DontTortureADuckling

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Giuseppe doesn't appear again after he is led away on a cop car surrounded by the growing mob of townspeople.

''Don't Torture a Duckling'' is a 1972 {{Giallo}} film directed by Creator/LucioFulci.

* NeverTrustATitle: No ducklings get tortured, though a mutilated ''Franchise/DonaldDuck'' doll turns out to be an important clue.

* {{Giallo}}: A classic example from the 70s, complete with gratuitous AnimalTitleIndex.

* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: [[spoiler:Don Alberto is a kindly looking priest, but he's actually an insane child murderer, and the main villain. Compared to the film's {{red herring}}s--Giuseppe the town pervert, Maciara a haggard looking witch, Patrizia the strange city girl, and Aurelia a lonely reserved widow--it just goes to show that no one ever came ''close'' to pinpointing the actual culprit due to everyone's prejudgment of each person's outward appearance. The main characters are guilty of this, too, not just the villagers.]]

** [[spoiler:Don Alberto is the killer of the four boys and almost claims his first girl victim had Andrea not come in time to stop him.]]

* CreepyChild: Downplayed with Malvina Avallone, a deaf and mentally slow girl who carries around a decapitated doll. At first, it's assumed that bullies have simply broken her toy so Patrizia buys her a Donald Duck toy to replace it. It turns out, [[spoiler:she's actually [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior imitating the murders of the children]] by strangling her toys in a similar manner until their heads come off, leading to a mutilated Donald Duck toy, and a doll's head, being found near one of the crime scenes. [[SheKnowsToomuch Being a potential witness to the crime]], she nearly becomes the murderer's next target]].

* PanUpToTheSkyEnding: The final shot of the film is of the clear blue sky after the camera pans away from[[spoiler:the shot of Don Alberto's bloody corpse after falling off a cliff.]]

* CreepyChild: Downplayed with Malvina Avallone, a deaf and mentally slow girl who caries around a decapitated doll. At first, it's assumed that bullies have simply broken her toy so Patrizia buys her a Donald Duck toy to replace it. It turns out, [[spoiler:she's actually [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior imitating the murders of the children]] by strangling her toys in a similar manner until their heads come off, leading to a mutilated Donald Duck toy, and a doll's head, being found near one of the crime scenes. [[SheKnowsToomuch Being a potential witness to the crime]], she nearly becomes the murderer's next target]].

* CreepyChild: Downplayed with Malvina Avallone, a deaf and mute girl who caries around a decapitated doll. At first, it's assumed that bullies have simply broken her toy so Patrizia buys her a Donald Duck toy to replace it. It turns out, [[spoiler:she's actually [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior imitating the murders of the children]] by strangling her toys in a similar manner until their heads come off, leading to a mutilated Donald Duck toy, and a doll's head, being found near one of the crime scenes. [[SheKnowsToomuch Being a potential witness to the crime]], she nearly becomes the murderer's next victim]].

* CreepyChild: Downplayed with Malvina Avallone, a deaf and mute girl who caries around a decapitated doll. At first, it's assumed that bullies have simply broken her toy so Patrizia buys her a Donald Duck toy to replace it. It turns out, [[spoiler:she's actually [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior imitating the murders of the children]] by strangling her toys in a similar manner until their heads come off, leading to a mutilated Donald Duck toy being found near one of the crime scenes. [[SheKnowsToomuch Being a potential witness to the crime]], she nearly becomes the murderer's next victim]].

* CreepyChild: Downplayed with Malvina Avallone, a deaf and mute girl who caries around a decapitated doll. At first, it's assumed that bullies have simply broken her toy so Patrizia buys her a Donald Duck toy to replace it. It turns out, [[spoiler:she's actually [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior imitating the murders of the children]] by strangling her toys in a similar manner until their heads come off, leading to a mutilated Donald Duck toy being found near the latest crime scene. [[SheKnowsToomuch Being a potential witness to the crime]], she nearly becomes the murderer's next victim]].

* CreepyChild: Downplayed with Malvina Avallone, a deaf and mute girl who caries around a decapitated doll. At first, it's assumed that bullies have simply broken her toy so Patrizia buys her a Donald Duck toy to replace it. It turns out, [[spoiler:she's actually [[HarmfulToMinors imitating the murder of the children]] by strangling her toys in a similar manner until their heads come off, leading to a mutilated Donald Duck toy being found near the latest crime scene. [[SheKnowsToomuch This habit]] almost makes her the murderer's next victim]].

* NonIndicativeName: No ducklings get tortured, though a mutilated ''Franchise/DonaldDuck'' doll turns out to be an important clue.

''Don't Torture a Duckling'' is a 1972 {{Giallo}} film directed by Creator/LucioFulci. The film's score was composed by Music/RizOrtolani, of ''Film/MondoCane'' and ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' fame.

''Don't Torture a Duckling'' is a 1972 {{Giallo}} film directed by Creator/LucioFulci.

* SinisterMinister: [[spoiler:Don Alberto as it turns out. Though he has a reputation of being the GoodShepherd among the town, he's the one who's been murdering the children for [[InsaneTrollLogic incredibly delusional reasons]].]]

** American soul music and an Italian romantic ballad [[IntersceneDiegetic playing from a car radio]] as [[spoiler:Maciara is being beaten to death for her supposed murder of the three boys.]]
** And who can forget that beautiful score being played by the orchestra as [[spoiler:Don Alberto falls to his death while his face is being scraped by the side of the cliff?]]

* SoundtrackDissonance: American soul music and an Italian romantic ballad [[IntersceneDiegetic playing from a car radio]] as [[spoiler:Maciara is being beaten to death for her supposed murder of the three boys.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Don Alberto is about to kill another child by throwing them off a cliff, but Andrea foils his plan resulting in a struggle where he ends up falling from the cliff instead, ending him.]]