Le foto proibite di una signora per bene
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| Directed by | Luciano Ercoli |
| Produced by |
Alberto Pugliese Luciano Ercoli |
| Screenplay by | Ernesto Gastaldi |
| Story by | Ernesto Gastaldi Mahnahén Velasco |
| Starring |
Pier Paolo Capponi Simon Andreu Dagmar Lassander Susan Scott |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Alejandro Ulloa |
| Edited by | Luciano Ercoli |
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| Distributed by | Atlántida Films |
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96 minutes |
| Country | Spain Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Box office | ESP €20,085,120 (Spain) |
Le foto proibite di una signora per bene, also known as Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, is a 1970 giallo film directed by Luciano Ercoli. Written by Ernesto Gastaldi and Mahnahén Velasco, the film stars Pier Paolo Capponi, Simon Andreu and Dagmar Lassander. The film, featuring a score written by Ennio Morricone, has received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
When bored housewife Minou (Lassander) is convinced by a stranger that her husband is a killer, she finds herself being manipulated by a stranger who seduces her and uses photographs of the affair to blackmail her.
Minou (Dagmar Lassander) is a wealthy housewife, who yearns for the attention of her husband Peter (Pier Paolo Capponi). However, Peter is frequently busy at work and is rarely at home. Minou is out one night when she is attacked by a strange man (Simon Andreu), who cuts open her clothes and warns her that her husband is a killer.
Minou ignores what she has been told until she finds that a man indebted to Peter has been found dead. She receives a telephone call from her attacker, who plays a tape recording of Peter discussing the murders. The attacker tells Minou that he will go public with this evidence if she does not come to his house; when she is there he further blackmails her into sleeping with him. However, he has used a hidden camera to photograph the tryst, and continues to use this new leverage to continue blackmailing her.
Dominique (Susan Scott), a friend of Minou, initially seems to be trustworthy, but Minou finds pornographic photographs of her blackmailer in Dominique's possession. When Minou leads the police to her blackmailer's home, it has been emptied of all belongings; while Dominique refuses to corroborate that the man even existed. Doubt begins to amass as to Minou's sanity, leading to her suffering a nervous breakdown and taking an overdose of tranquilizers.
"Suddenly, as I am on the way to pay the gas bill ... the idea comes to me. And the idea (luckily I always carry a pen and paper) I write immediately; it's just an idea, not yet refined, a general idea, not even a melody."
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