---
title: 'L''arma, l''ora, il movente (1972)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Francesco Mazzei'
released: '1972-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 100
genres:
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/larma-lora-il-movente-1972'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069730/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# L'arma, l'ora, il movente (1972)

1972 · 100 min · Thriller · Italy

Original title: L'arma l'ora il movente

## Synopsis

L'arma, l'ora, il movente, internationally released as The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive, is a 1972 Italian giallo film produced, co-written and directed by Francesco Mazzei. It is the first giallo that showed a corrupt priest as victim of a crime, a plot that would become a topos of the genre. Co-plotter Marcello Aliprandi went on to create another similar film in 1982, involving murder and Catholicism, entitled The Vatican Conspiracy.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Francesco Mazzei](https://cinepixo.com/people/francesco-mazzei)
- **Screenplay:** [Mario Bianchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/mario-bianchi)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Francesco De Masi](https://cinepixo.com/people/francesco-de-masi)
- **Editor:** [Alberto Gallitti](https://cinepixo.com/people/alberto-gallitti)

## Cast

- [Renzo Montagnani](https://cinepixo.com/people/renzo-montagnani)
- [Claudia Gravy](https://cinepixo.com/people/claudia-gravy)
- [Eva Czemerys](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-czemerys)
- [Lorenzo Piani](https://cinepixo.com/people/lorenzo-piani)
- [Bedy Moratti](https://cinepixo.com/people/bedy-moratti)
- [Salvatore Puntillo](https://cinepixo.com/people/salvatore-puntillo)
- [Gina Mascetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/gina-mascetti)
- [Maurizio Bonuglia](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurizio-bonuglia)
- [Francesco D'Adda](https://cinepixo.com/people/francesco-d-adda)

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