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
 
