Murder in Mallorca is a beautiful affair! This is the motto of the third collaboration between Umberto LENZI and ACADEMY AWARD nominee Carroll BAKER (in 1957 she was nominated for BABY DOLL).
After a serious accident, the attractive racing driver Helen (Carroll BAKER) is on the road to recovery. Then she receives a surprising offer: her ex-husband Maurice (Jean SOREL) invites her to relax in his finca on Mallorca. Maurice is now remarried, this time to the extremely wealthy Constance (Anna PROCLEMER). Helen is still in love with the handsome and sexually very active Maurice. Contrary to expectations, she gets on surprisingly well with his new wife. She makes a strange suggestion to the unstable Helen. The first death is soon to be mourned.
The wonderful holiday mood does not last long, of course, in the morally corrupt world of the Italian Giallo. The American actress Carroll BAKER once again gives her all. She would not have been allowed to do something like that in prudish Hollywood. An exquisite atmosphere! A great cast, which also includes Luis DAVILA, Alberto DALBES and Marina COFFA as Constance's precocious daughter Susan.
The giallos that Umberto LENZI shot with his American superstar set the gold standard in this genre. After this third giallo together, BAKER and LENZI probably needed a little break from each other until two years later, their fourth and final collaboration, KNIFE OF ICE, was born.
