she shoots him, joining the ranks of the "Tens". The story was adapted for radio on X Minus One in 1957. Cast Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Polletti Ursula Andress as Caroline Meredith Elsa Martinelli as Olga Salvo Randone as Professor Massimo Serato as Lawyer Rossi Milo Quesada as Rudi Luce Bonifassy as Lidia Poletti George Wang as Chinese Hunter Evi Rigano as Victim Walter Williams as Martin Richard Armstrong as Cole Anita Sanders as Relaxatorium Hostess Mickey Knox as Chet Jacques Herlin as Masoch Club Owner Wolfgang Hillinger as Baron Von Aschenberg Release The 10th Victim was released in Italy on December 3, 1965. The film grossed a little over 620 million lire in Italy upon its theatrical release. The film was distributed abroad, including in the United States and Canada by Embassy Pictures in late December 1965. Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a score of 80% based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 7.35/10. In contemporary reviews, the Monthly Film Bulletin praised the visuals of the film, but stated that "the film is never quite as much fun as it should be, possibly because of rather ponderous dubbing and possibly because imaginative camera angles cannot totally make up for lapses in narrative." Bosley Crowther of The New York Times noted a "wildly imaginative plot" but declared the film overall to be "a clever but patently self-conscious exercise ... The cleverness is so insistent that it soon becomes excessive and absurd, and the gamesmanship of the satire becomes too cute, too much a bore." Variety found the film superior to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville, praising both Mastroianni and Andress, as well as Elsa Martinelli and Massimo Serato. The review also noted the cinematography of Gianni di Venanzo. Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post wrote that the film is "not handled so crisply as the material promises", finding that director Elio Petri "did not find quite the exact, cohesive tone such material demands. The result is curiously pedestrian." Algis Budrys of Galaxy Science Fiction described Sheckley's novelization as "a reasonably good chase novel" which would, nonetheless, disappoint readers, whether they wanted a literary version of the film's Italian satire and symbolism or the 'chilling futurama of legalized manslaughter' the cover promised. In popular culture The movie is an international cult classic whose wild action and sexy style has influenced a generation of movies, from Death