What a shame! Great title, well the Italian and English, anyway, and starring the fine actress, Nieves Navarro (Susan Scott) but this struggles. Over acting is evident from the first frames and the preposterous plot set up is established early, maybe too early. We then seem to have a series of interludes where we watch some lovemaking or some piano playing or some dancing, all fine and dandy but the story, or what there is of it, has come to a stop. I'm also a bit peeved at the red herrings and the eventual outcome. We are used to some licence in a giallo but this is rather taking the p***. Which reminds me has there ever been a film before, ever, where in the climatic scene, a female (or male for that matter) suspends action while they go for a pee! Once in the bushes and once in the academy they are secretly investigating - I kid you not. To be fair there are some decent sequences and the kills are mostly well done. Now if the composer could have been killed in the final scene it would just about have saved things. Where was Morricone when he was needed most?
Review of Death Carries a Cane
