As in the classic films of Hollywood's black series (film noir), we are dealing here with a cynical and corrupt Commissario Belli (Franco NERO), who offers his services to the highest bidder on the open market. The lawyer Fontana (Adolfo CELI) is worried about his son Mino (Maurizio BONUGLIA). He is hopelessly in love with a beautiful Englishwoman (Delia BOCCARDO) and wants to enable her to have a career in recording. And all this with his father's money! The record company is based on the famous Via Veneto. And when the corrupt Commissario wants to pay the record boss a visit, he finds him murdered in his fancy apartment. Of course, Mino and his free-spirited Englishwoman in particular now come under fire from the investigating Commissario Baldo (Renzo PALMER). Baldo follows the law, while the corrupt Belli is prepared to share the bedsheets with all the suspected ladies in the case. Then there is the drug-addicted pop singer Emmanuelle (Susanna MARTINKOVA, who in real life was married to CINECITTA divo Gianni GARKO for several years), and above all the beautiful wife of the lawyer and stepmother of Mino: Vera Fontana (Florinda BOLKAN). The case becomes more and more confusing. And soon there are more deaths to mourn.
A very good representative of the successful EUROCRIME genre! Here the restless action of the 1970s is even less in the foreground, instead a grandiose social portrait is drawn using the means of classic film noir. The two CINECITTA beauties Laura ANTONELLI and Silvia DIONISIO can be admired in smaller roles. In the 1980s, Florinda BOLKAN (seasons 1, 2 and 7) and Delia BOCCARDO (season 5) made an exciting reunion in the globally successful Italian television series LA PIOVRA.
The wonderful images of the Via Veneto in the middle of Rome are particularly worth seeing. The male and female divas of the Roman CINECITTA film industry would come there every evening. Whether they were looking for a new role or a new love interest! Romolo GUERRIERI's film skilfully captures this shimmering atmosphere of the late 1960s.
