A down-on-his-luck musician thinks he's impersonating a missing millionaire as part of an inheritance scheme but it's only a smokescreen for a Nazi war criminal trying to escape the Mossad...
Although both films use French crime novels from the pulp team of Boileau-Narcejac as source, Sergio Gobbi's MISDEAL (aka EVIL WOMAN) bears no resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO as far as plot goes and there's no reel comparison, artistically, either. That said, MISDEAL is still a sort-of-suspenseful cat-and-mouse thriller with an ironic ending that comes as no big surprise despite the twists and turns the tale takes to get there. The WW II flashback relationship between Elsa Martinelli & Robert Hossein predicts the one between Charlotte Rampling & Dirk Bogarde in THE NIGHT PORTER a half-decade later. Led to believe MISDEAL was adapted from the same Boileau-Narcejac novel Hitchcock used (D'Entre Les Morts/From Among The Dead), this wasn't at all what I was expecting but it didn't suck, either. 7/10
Although both films use French crime novels from the pulp team of Boileau-Narcejac as source, Sergio Gobbi's MISDEAL (aka EVIL WOMAN) bears no resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO as far as plot goes and there's no reel comparison, artistically, either. That said, MISDEAL is still a sort-of-suspenseful cat-and-mouse thriller with an ironic ending that comes as no big surprise despite the twists and turns the tale takes to get there. The WW II flashback relationship between Elsa Martinelli & Robert Hossein predicts the one between Charlotte Rampling & Dirk Bogarde in THE NIGHT PORTER a half-decade later. Led to believe MISDEAL was adapted from the same Boileau-Narcejac novel Hitchcock used (D'Entre Les Morts/From Among The Dead), this wasn't at all what I was expecting but it didn't suck, either. 7/10