Six years after committing a murder and getting away with it — they used to pick up strangers at bars and play sex games with them while taking pictures, but one of them accidentally dies — Lea (Marília Branco), Andrea (Roberto Bisacco) and Vanni (Daniel Sola) get a photo of them that proves they are guilty. They pay the blackmail — they’re all rich enough now — but the messages keep coming. Who is it? Is it one of the three? Old friend Carletto (Lino Capolicchio) who is back in town? So cosa hai fatto l’estate scorsa?

The English translation of this movie is Shame on you, swine! and the film really shows how empty and pointless the lives of the idle rich are. They would have hated Carletto even if they didn’t think he was the one holding their past crimes over their collective heads; he’s a left wing radical artist who hates the capitalism that has given them whatever life they sleepwalk through.

Directed by Mauro Severino, who wrote the story with Giuseppe D’Agata, this film comes before the giallo form was set by Argento. At this point, they could be anything from a Hitchcock ripoff to a movie like this that uses crime and sleaze to poke at the ways of Milan in 1969.

Based around the nursery rhyme “Giro giro tondo” (“Ring Around the Rosie”), this Ennio Morricone soundtrack makes this even better.

You can watch this on The Cave of Forgotten Films.