La morte non ha sesso (1968)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Massimo Dallamano

Writers:

Giuseppe Belli (screenplay)
Giuseppe Belli (story)

Release Date:

August 1969 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

White veils for angels

Plot:

When a narcotics detective finds out that his beautiful wife--who is an ex-criminal--is cheating on him, he hires a professional hitman to bump her off. However, things don't go quite according to plan. |

Plot Keywords:

Hitman | Detective | Beautiful Woman | Double Cross | Narc

Cast

John Mills	...	Inspector Franz Bulon
Luciana Paluzzi	...	Lisa
Robert Hoffmann	...	Max Lindt
Renate Kasché	...	Marianne
Tullio Altamura	...	Ostermeyer
Carlo Hinterman	...	Mansfeld (as Carlo Hintermann)
Enzo Fiermonte	...	Siegert
Loris Bazzocchi	...	Kruger
Jimmy il Fenomeno
Paola Natale
Mirella Pamphili
Vanna Polverosi	...	Ursula
Rodolfo Licari	...	Olaf
Bernardino Solitari	...	Muller
Carlo Spadoni	...	Eric

Also Known As:

A Black Veil for Lisa (USA)
Das Geheimnis der jungen Witwe (West Germany)
Death Has No Sex

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Italy | West Germany

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Spain:18 | USA:R

Company:

Filmes Cinematografica

Movie Connections:

Edited into 42nd Street Forever, Volume 1 (2005) (V)

Soundtrack:

Melodie de Lisa

Quality character drive giallo

Inspector Franz Bulon (Sir John Mills) is a veteran Hamburg police detective in charge of a drugs investigation, but is finding it hard to break the case, his mind is elsewhere…on his beautiful young wife Lisa (Luciana Paluzzi) that is, a former criminal herself, though never convicted, a fact that Bulon's colleagues never let him forget, Bulon's problem is that he suspects Lisa of cheating on him a fact he can't quite prove, until one day he thinks he has caught her out and sets about hiring a local killer Max Lindt,(Robert Hoffman) the man behind the killings of witnesses in his drugs investigation, to kill his wife in return for him hiding the evidence building against him.

A Black Veil for Lisa deviates from normal giallo practice by telling us who the killer is, much like Luigi Cozzi's The Killer must kill again. The story is driven by the man (Bulov) who hires the killer to do his dirty work, as a result, Dallamano replaces the lack of mystery with some decent character development, Mills is excellent and portrays well Bulov's obsessiveness with his wife's cheating, which ultimately leads to his own self destruction.