Carnal Circuit

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Carnal Circuit
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Directed by Alberto De Martino
Screenplay by
  • Lianellà Carell
  • Carlo Romano
  • Alberto De Martino
  • Vincenzo Flamini
Produced byHans Pflüger
Starring
CinematographySergio D'Offizi
Edited by Otello Colangeli
Music by Bruno Nicolai
Production
companies
  • Empire Films S.r.l.
  • Corona Filmproduktion GmbH [1]
Distributed byFida
Nora Filmverleih GmbH & Co. KG [1] [2]
Release dates
  • August 14, 1969 (1969-08-14)(Italy)
  • August 13, 1970 (1970-08-13)(West Germany)
[1]
Running time
93 minutes [2]
Countries
  • Italy
  • West Germany [2]
LanguagesItalian
English

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]

Contents

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

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. "Femmine insaziabili". Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN   8876055932.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mord im schwarzen Cadillac". Filmportal.de . Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ Margot Winick (1996). Spaghetti Nightmares. Fantasma Books, 1996. ISBN   0963498274.
  4. ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   8860736269.
  5. ↑ Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer,1999. ISBN   8820029197.
  6. ↑ Darkening the Italian Screen: Interviews with Genre and Exploitation, p. 101 , p. 101, at Google Books


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