The Silk Worm (1974)

Smeralda Amadier (Nadja Tiller) is a singer who has gone from fame to owing money to loan sharks. They give her three days to pay, or else… well, you know, else. She decides to sell all of her jewelry, but after a night of passion, she wakes up to her safe empty. The cops show up, claiming that the man she was horizontally dancing with is the suspect. And now, in her home, you find his sweater. His bloody, bullet-hole-littered sweater.

Plus, with George Hilton on hand as her ex-lover, we definitely have a giallo. Except this is closer to the Lenzi/Baker Gialli of nearly a decade before, and not the films of Argento.

You do get Evi Rigano (The Tenth Victim) as the personal assistant Marcelle, the evil yet smoke-show sister Yvonne (Evi Marandi, Planet of the Vampires), and Guy Madison in his only giallo! Yes, the star of Long Days of HateLSD Flesh of the Devil and Five for Revenge. Director Mario Sequi also made The Cobra and The Tramplers. Also: A great twist ending and an even better chase scene.

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