Carnal Circuit
Carnal Circuit (Italian: Femmine insaziabili, German: Mord im schwarzen Cadillac, also known as The Insatiables and Beverly Hills) is a 1969 Italian-German giallo written and directed by Alberto De Martino.[3][1][4][5]
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Directed by | Alberto De Martino |
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Produced by | Hans Pflüger |
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Cinematography | Sergio D'Offizi |
Edited by | Otello Colangeli |
Music by | Bruno Nicolai |
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Distributed by | Fida Nora Filmverleih GmbH & Co. KG[1][2] |
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Running time | 93 minutes[2] |
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Languages | Italian English |
Plot
A man hides his best friend from the criminals out to get him and suffers a violent beating. His friend gets killed, and he tries to find out why.
Cast
- Dorothy Malone as Vanessa Brighton
- Robert Hoffmann as Paolo Vittori
- Luciana Paluzzi as Mary Sullivan
- Frank Wolff as Frank Donovan
- John Ireland as Walter Salinger
- Roger Fritz as Giulio Lamberti
- Romina Power as Gloria Brighton
- Nicoletta Machiavelli as Luisa Lamberti
- Ini Assmann as Salinger's secretary
- Rosemarie Lindt as Patty
- Elena Persiani as Claire
- Rainer Basedow as Donovan's henchman
- John Karlsen as Fletcher
- Rod Dana as Charlie
Production
Carnal Circuit was shot in Rome between February 12, 1968, and February 1969.[2]
During an underwater scene the camera operator unexpectedly and without Romina Power's knowing, pulled down the bottom part of her swimsuit. For a moment you can see her bum. Afterwards, Romina's mother went to the producer Goffredo Lombardo shouting and complaining about director Alberto De Martino.[6]
Release
In West Germany, Carnal Circuit was released on August 13, 1970.[2]
References
- Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. "Femmine insaziabili". Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
- "Mord im schwarzen Cadillac". Filmportal.de. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- Margot Winick (1996). Spaghetti Nightmares. Fantasma Books, 1996. ISBN 0963498274.
- Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
- Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer,1999. ISBN 8820029197.
- Darkening the Italian Screen: Interviews with Genre and Exploitation, p. 101, p. 101, at Google Books