Also known as Femmine insaziabili (Insatiable Females), Mord im schwarzen Cadillac (Murder In a Black Cadillac), The Insatiables and Beverly Hills, this giallo was directed and written by Alberto De Martino (Miami Golem, Holocaust 2000, OK Connery, Strange Shadows in an Empty Room, The Antichrist).

Paolo Sartoni (Robert Hoffmann, Spasmo) is an Italian journalist making his way in Los Angeles who takes a beating meant for his childhood friend Giulio Lamberti (Roger Fritz), who is now known as Lambert Smile, the advertising face of International Chemical, but he’s upset the company. Paolo decides to write the story of this assault, only to learn that Giulio is dead. The more he learns about his old friend, the more he discovers that America corrupted him and even caused him to leave his wife Luisa (Nicoletta Machiavelli).

Everyone that Paolo meets from the company are all horrible, including the President of the comapny, Donovan (Frank Wolff), secretary Mary Sullivan (Luciana Paluzzi, A Black Veil For Lisa), Giulio’s boss and new lover Vanessa Brighton (Dorothy Malone, who years later would be in the erotic thriller — what they called giallo in the 1990s — Basic Instinct) and her daughter Gloria (Romina Power, who accidentally had her swimsuit bottom removed by a cameraman and that scene is in the movie; her mother went to producer Goffredo Lombardo shouting and complaining about De Martino; I find this story hilarious because in the same year, she was in Jess Franco’s Marquis de Sade’s Justine), who makes a pass at Paolo. That’s when he learns that Giulio is still alive and will kill anyone — including Paolo’s editor Richard Salinger (John Ireland) — to keep his death a secret.

Bruno Nicolai did the soundtrack, which adds a lot for me. This is a fun film, made in America and filled with the sights, sounds and lovemaking of the late sixities.