Directed by Ernesto Gastaldi
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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A young man returns to his childhood home to prepare to sell it. He bring along his wife, lawyer and the lawyer's wife. The foursome make up a strange group, as the lawyer is too old for his young, beautiful wife, who likes to sunbathe and strut around in her bikini, while he seems to young for his own aloof wife. The cracks begin to show when he has flashbacks to the night his father murdered his lover in a mirror-filled bedroom, then jumped off a nearby cliff. It seems the boy is destined to re-enact it, but his intended victim has other plans. Pretty good little early "giallo" with unexpected character motivations and plot twists, in black and white, and better for it. Psychological themes recall Hitchcock, particularly Psycho.
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