After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several unscrupulous characters to believe that she is actually alive.After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several unscrupulous characters to believe that she is actually alive.After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several unscrupulous characters to believe that she is actually alive.
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
- Horserace Spectator
- (uncredited)
- Edgar Wallace
- (archive footage)
- (German version)
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThough not an adaption of original material by Edgar Wallace, this film was advertised in Germany as part of the famous Edgar Wallace Series. It was such a huge flop that the producers at Rialto Film decided to delay any future plans to do further Wallace films. Due to the great success of Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), which was advertised as an adaption of a story by Wallace's son Bryan Edgar Wallace, Rialto's series re-started in 1971.
- GoofsWorst Dubbing Ever! Voices are heard on the audio while the actors are seen to be silent on screen, then flapping their mouths soundlessly on screen to silence in the audio.;
- Quotes
Liz: I knew your plan wouldn't work! You son of a bitch! If it wasn't for the inspector he would have killed me! And all because you wanted to grab your stepdaughter's money and become the real head of the company! Damn you! I told you you couldn't make this work!
Mr. Brown: You slut! I knew I couldn't trust you!
- Alternate versionsNudity removed for US television screenings not restored to video. Rerelease in France had new sex footage featuring Alice Arno added.
- ConnectionsEdited from The Man with the Glass Eye (1969)
- SoundtracksNon Dirmi Una Bugia
(Don't Tell Me a Lie)
Written by Nora Orlandi (uncredited)
Sung by Nora Orlandi (as Silvie St Laurent)
If you are used to Kinski hamming it up in a Herzog epic, his role here is a revelation. As a London millionaire who may or may not have murdered his lesbian wife, he is so subtle and ambiguous, so - dare I say it? - restrained that he keeps us guessing right up until the last few seconds. Seeing her 'come back to life' in a porno film (shot after her death) Kinski's face takes on a haunted look that outdoes all his raving, eye-rolling and tooth-gnashing in more famous roles.
Proof, if proof were needed, that director Riccardo Freda was not just a great unsung visual stylist, but a maestro of mood and suspense. Imagine a Chabrol or Hitchcock with the eye of a Renaissance painter, and you come close to the splendours of this film. So exquisite in its visual detail that its minor flaws - i.e. blatantly fake model car wrecks; continuity howlers such as Kinski walking bareheaded through Soho, then sitting in a nightclub with his hat on - simply evaporate before our eyes.
Oh, and I even like the tacky Italian pop ballad that keeps recurring as a 'clue' - to oddly chilling effect. So perhaps I'm just a sucker for this type of film.
David Melville
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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