Yellow: le cugine (1969)

Following the death of her grandfather, Valentina Garbini (Caterina Barbero) and her husband Pierre (Maurizio Bonuglia) have settled into the old family home, sharing it with her cousin Marta (Lisa Seagram, who mostly did TV in America, including three episodes of Beverly Hillbillies as Edythe Brewster, the new wife of the oil man who helped Jed Clampett get rich. They stay in the cabin that has been relocated to the side of the mansion for their honeymoon. She was also Lila, who poisoned Batman and Robin on their TV show with lilacs, and later ran an acting school in Hawaii, Actors 2000). The cousins are oppposites, as Valentina is free with her body while Marta is virginal. The one time that Marta tried to lose her innocence to a local man, her grandfather beat her with a whip.

This changes when Valentina dies. Pierre is fingered by the police, but Marta hides the murder weapon to keep her cousin’s husband by her side, as the suspicion now is on Valentina’s friends. Now, Marta can get what she wants — a man — and the entire mansion. Things don’t end up working out for her, but that’s the morality coming in, I guess.

Also known as The Mill of the Virgins, this was directed by Gianfranco Baldanello (The Uranium ConspiracyVery Close Encounters of the Fourth KindDanger!! Death Ray) and written by Augusto Finocchi and Vittorio Metz. It was edited by Bruno Mattei.

You can watch this on YouTube.