Enquiry Into Bandits (1963)

Sardinia, Italy. Title in Italian reads ’Edizione Straordinaria - Parla in Bandito’. Various shots of the Sardinian shepherd with his flock grazing in the hills. MS. Two men with guns on their back. GV. Small Sardinian town of Orgosolo. Tracking shot from car driving toward Orgosolo, it pulls up in front of a large house. View from window of house as car drives up. CU. Car flashing past camera. MS. The car stops and an Incom reporter steps out to try to talk to village people. A crowd of village men walk away as he approaches them. MS. The reporter approaches two women and they shun him. MS. & CU. The men drinking in the village pub, good close up shots of men drinking. MS. In the hills, the Incom reporter’s car pulls up in front of two roughly made crosses on the spot where two English consorts were shot. CU. The cross. MS. & CU. Reporter interviewing shepherd - natural sound, Italian. He says that the village people did not think that the Sardinian bandits have killed the two Englishmen, he suggests