Police are in hot pursuit of a criminal who is evading capture on a speeding motorbike. He takes refuge in an overgrown castle’s grounds and sees a pale woman burying a corpse in a shallow grave. Thirteen years later, after being recaptured and serving his sentence, the man returns to the castle, intent on blackmail — and maybe a few other things.
Production
That decaying castle location deserves its own screen credit.
Costume
Sixties mod fashion crashing into Victorian melodrama.
Editing
Disorienting cuts that feel like the film itself is having a breakdown.
Director
Sergio Bergonzelli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pier Angeli, playing dual roles here, was James Dean's former fiancée and died by suicide just three years after this film.
Bergonzelli was primarily a producer who directed sporadically; this represents the wild excesses Italian genre cinema embraced when funding came from who-knows-where.
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