The Fifth Cord

About The Fifth Cord

A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation.

Luigi Bazzoni's The Fifth Cord is a 1971 horror mystery film. It runs 93 minutes and was released in August 1971.

The film is filed under whodunit, reporter, voyeur, and sexual obsession. It is adapted from a novel.

Franco Nero stars as Andrea Bild, Silvia Monti as Helene Volta, Wolfgang Preiss as Police inspector, and Edmund Purdom as Edouard Vermont. The screenplay is by Luigi Bazzoni and Mario Di Nardo. In the United States it streams on AMC+ Amazon Channel, ARROW, and FlixFling.

Zodiac, Sherlock Holmes, and Psycho make useful companions to The Fifth Cord, all filed under murder. TMDB voters put it at 6.6 out of 10 across 79 votes.