film titled 'split second'

[Paradoxman]

I am trying to track down a European (possibly French, more likely Italian) movie from the late60s-early70s that was shown on TV a long time back under the title SPLIT SECOND.

The main action was set in a cinema which is showing a spaghetti western. At a certain point in the early part of the film a screen character fires 'out' into the auditorium (ie towards the audience point of view) and an audience member is killed, shot dead. The police are called, the situation recreated as part of the investigation, and at the same point in the film within the film same thing happens again, an audience member is shot dead..

I rmeember a lot about this film except the resolution. Or what its original title was, or who was in it, or who directed it....

As far as I know this was shown only once, and by elimination I have worked out it had to be the BBC (almost certainly BBC 1 ) between Easter 1969 and August 1971.

Any help or hints appreciated - I've been trying to track this film down for years.

[tonymclark]

For a film or DVD release it would have to have been passed by the British Board of Film Classification.

www.bbfc.co.uk

You can search their database, but I couldn't find anything with that title that matched your discription.

If you have the chance to look through old Radio Times and find who directed it, you may find out if it had a different title. If you live in London there is the British Library or the British Film Institute, both have bound editions of old Radio Times.

[Paradoxman]

After a lot of searching over the years and up and down the web I have discovered that the film is actually called CIRCUITO CHIUSO (translates as 'Short Circuit'), and was made in Italy in 1978. It has an IMDB entry - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0077337/ - which doesn't offer much in the way of plot description, but once one knows the actual title then its easy to find all sorts of other references on the web which make it abundantly clear that CIRCUITO CHIUSO and my SPLIT SECOND are one and the same.

All I need now is to work out how the hell I have believed for decades (though clearly not as many decades as I thought) that I had seen it around 1970 instead of perhaps 1980, and why I - and also apparently others - believed it was called SPLIT SECOND, and life is complete.