Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970)
"Le foto proibite di una signora per bene" (original title)

A triangle of friendship, love, sex, and, perhaps, murder. Minou is newly married to Peter, a businessman in debt as he works to bring a new product to market. They met through Dominique, ... See full summary »

Director:

Luciano Ercoli

Writers:

Ernesto Gastaldi (screenplay), Ernesto Gastaldi (story),

Stars:

Dagmar Lassander, Pier Paolo Capponi, Simón Andreu

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Dagmar Lassander	...	Minou
Pier Paolo Capponi	...	Peter
Simón Andreu	...	The Blackmailer
Osvaldo Genazzani	...	Frank, the Commissioner
Salvador Huguet	...	George (as Salvador Buguet)
Nieves Navarro	...	Dominique (as Susan Scott)

Storyline

A triangle of friendship, love, sex, and, perhaps, murder. Minou is newly married to Peter, a businessman in debt as he works to bring a new product to market. They met through Dominique, sexually voracious, Minou's best friend, and Peter's former (and possibly still) lover. A stranger accosts Minou one night on the beach while Peter is away. He tells her that Peter has murdered a business associate and blackmails her into sleeping with him. He compounds the blackmail with photos taken of their tryst. To Minou's surprise, this same stranger is in a pornographic photo Dominique has imported from Denmark. Is this all a game, and if so, who's behind it?

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Plot Keywords:

love | murder | playing footsie | photograph | sunglasses | 

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Genres:

Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Spain Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

19 November 1970 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion

Box Office

Gross:

ESP 20,085,120 (Spain)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Produzioni Cinematografiche Mediterranee (PCM), Trébol Films C.C.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Eurotika!: So Sweet, So Perverse (1999)

User Reviews

Quite good relatively bloodless

If you like Giallo films because they are all blood, nudity, style and senselessness this one will probably disappoint you. Not that a little more of any of those elements might make this better than it is. This is very well done and though the story doesn't actually involve murder as much as extortion it is consistently interesting and involving. The recent DVD from Blue Underground is a spotless near perfect way to see it since a big screen is probably too much to ask. Unfortunately.

Screenwriter Gastaldi always comes up with interesting plots and this one holds together on the strength of the plotting for most of its run. The motivations of the wife at the start are a little fuzzy but this becomes clear later. It is too bad the casting of the two leads occasionally makes things confusing, in the dark they look too much alike. Both the lead women look great and act well and the dubbing into English isn't too bad. A solid low budget film (though you'd never know) well produced on all levels with stark/striking photography.