Dr. Michele Azzini (Luis Dávila) is living the life of Riley. He's engaged to a gorgeous co-worker, Dr. Paola Lombardi (Anita Strindberg, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key), and has just been offered an even better job in a cardiology clinic in Madrid. This angers his boss, Elena Carli (Luciana Paluzzi, Thunderball, The Green Slime, The Klansman), who owns his current place of work along with her husband Dr. Roberto Carli (George Hilton, Sartana as well as several giallo films). Despite her offering him a stake in the business, Azzini still plans to leave until he's murdered.
Inspector Nardi (Fernando Rey) is on the case, trying to learn just who killed the doctor. And at the same time, Elena's heart is giving out and she has to get a surgery that takes up the closing moments of the movie. And because this is an Italian movie, that's a real open heart surgery that we get to watch, conducted by Dr. Martinez Bordiu who is thanked in the credits.
Directed by Tulio Demicheli (Ricco) and written by Pedro Mario Herrero and Mario di Nardo, The Two Faces of Fear is a movie that really never gets going, but at least it has Strindberg, Paluzzi and Hilton in the cast, as well as that realistic surgery scene.
Inspector Nardi (Fernando Rey) is on the case, trying to learn just who killed the doctor. And at the same time, Elena's heart is giving out and she has to get a surgery that takes up the closing moments of the movie. And because this is an Italian movie, that's a real open heart surgery that we get to watch, conducted by Dr. Martinez Bordiu who is thanked in the credits.
Directed by Tulio Demicheli (Ricco) and written by Pedro Mario Herrero and Mario di Nardo, The Two Faces of Fear is a movie that really never gets going, but at least it has Strindberg, Paluzzi and Hilton in the cast, as well as that realistic surgery scene.