Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key Page #5

Synopsis: Oliviero is a burned-out writer, living at his estate near Venice, his dead mother dominating his imagination. He is also a degenerate: sleeps with his maid and his ex-student, hosts Bacchanalia for local hippies, and humiliates his wife Irina in front of strangers. She lives in terror. When a young woman is murdered, police suspect Oliviero. Things get complicated when his young, beautiful, and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected visit. A silver-haired stranger observes. More women die, and thoughts of harming Irina give Oliviero new inspiration. What's Floriana's game and who's the observant stranger? Watching all is a black cat named Satan.
Genre: Thriller
Director(s): Sergio Martino
Production: Lamberto Forni Film (LF)
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
1972
96 min
66 Views


Complete discretion, sir.

Goodnight.

Madame, I'm really tired.

I'm going to bed.

Goodnight, my girl.

Tomorrow starts well:

50,000 a time!

Goodnight.

- Goodnight, madame.

- Get some rest.

Madame, is that you?

Sleeping beauty,

got any cream?

Sleeping?

I'd like to wake up with you.

And the cream?

First class.

Really fresh and appreciated

throughout the area.

- You're not Italian, are you?

- Half and half.

I see, so they've conned

another woman.

There was a black woman before you

who said she was equal

but they got her to be their servant.

Maybe that's why she left.

- You knew her well?

- Like peas in a pod.

- Sorry, do you understand Italian well?

- So she left you?

She disappeared.

One fine morning she was gone.

As long as she didn't

end up like Giovanna...

Meaning?

- Good morning, Mr Rouvigny.

- Good morning.

I'm racing a bike on Sunday.

If you come you'll see

I'm not that sleepy...

They like me, they like me,

that's for sure!

European integration's not bad.

Don't you agree, Mr Rouvigny?

I'm sorry, Inspector, but I've been

really out of touch for a while.

Integration of what?

Here we are in a peaceful Veneto town,

with German beer,

Scottish whiskey...

...and atomic condiments

for everyone.

That's the trouble with you

intellectuals... pessimism.

Is there anything to laugh about?

I didn't think the Homicide Squad

was a school of humor.

No, quite the opposite.

We do what we can

with what we've got.

Exceptional equipment...

Just think, our forensic scientist's

even got a magnifying glass!

But, joking apart,

I must apologise to you.

Apologise? Why?

- About Bartoli.

- Ah.

- The bookseller.

- His real name's Liguori.

He escaped from Boretto

Psychiatric Prison eight years ago.

He killed the two girls

in a fit of madness.

Good, so you won't have

any more problems, Inspector.

But that's the thing about problems.

They never end.

Now my dear wife knows

that I didn't kill the girl.

Now she knows, but a woodworm's

eating into her brain.

The woodworm's working away

and says he was the murderer,

that the murderer sleeps

next to her in bed.

- Leave me alone! You're drunk!

- Yes, I'm drunk

like I was drunk that night.

But it wasn't me

who killed the black maid.

I didn't kill that dirty negro.

I didn't kill her, it wasn't me!

So why don't you tell the police?

Let me...

You're crazy, you're crazy,

you're killing me...

You're killing me...

Let me go...

Dario Luisetti, number 7,

has taken the lead on lap 5

and looks like he's got the race.

In second place, number 3:

Armando Gardiglia.

In third, Lucio Tarmaglio.

Then there's the Spaniard

Luis Soler-Borrego...

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Ernesto Gastaldi

Ernesto Gastaldi (born 10 September 1934) is an Italian screenwriter. Born in Graglia, province of Biella, Italy, he has written under the pseudonyms Julian Berry, Julyan Perry and Ernst Gasthaus. He has collaborated with Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Riccardo Freda, Tonino Valerii, Sergio Martino and Sergio Leone; as such he can be regarded as a chief architect of the giallo and Spaghetti Western films. The 1973 Italian western comedy film My Name Is Nobody (also known as Mio nome è Nessuno and Lonesome Gun), is based on his story and his script. more…

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