SPLIT SECOND ??? A European movie from the 1960s?

Question

I saw this film on the BBC in the late 1960s. It may be either French or Italian, and involves strange happenings in a cinema. During the screening of a Western movie an audience member is shot dead. The police arrive, stage a reconstruction, and at exactly the same point in the screened film someone sitting in the audience is shot dead. It appears as if the on-screen characters are shooting the audience!

This is all played straight, as a bizarre mystery which the police attempt to solve via reconstruction and deduction. I recall it was called 'Split Second' (obviously something else in the original language) but that might be wrong. There is NO trace of this film in any of the usual sources, although I have met people who remember the plot and have indeed seen the film more recently.

I've been trying to find out about this movie for at least ten years. Apart from anything else I can't remember how it was resolved in the end!

Please Note - this is NOT the Rutger Hauer film from the 1980s. There is no relationship except the title (perhaps!). Or in fact any other film or tv show of the same title in IMDB.

It was shown on BBC tv somewhere between 1968 and 1971 - I know this because I know where I was living when I saw it.

Answer 1

There's a DVD called Split Second on DVD on eBay.. It's got Rutger Hauer in it, so it's probably a remake but might be worth a look.

Answer 2

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