One on Top of the Other (1969)

Review: One on Top of the Other (1969)

Director: Lucio Fulci

Cast: Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli, Alberto de Mendoza, John Ireland,

Jean Sorel
Jean Sorel
Marisa Mell
Marisa Mell
Elsa Martinelli
Elsa Martinelli
Alberto de Mendoza
Alberto de Mendoza
John Ireland
John Ireland

Plot: Dr. George Dumurrier is looking for money to expand the San Francisco based clinic he runs with his brother. He is also having an affair with Jane, a glamorous fashion photographer. When Dumurrier's wife Susan dies following an asthma attack, leaving him a million dollar insurance pay-out, it seems that all his problems are solved - until an anonymous phone call sends him to the Roaring 20s strip club where he is astonished to discover that its featured performer, the dangerously desirable Monica Weston, looks exactly like his dead wife. As he tries to unravel this mystery, George learns that the police are now investigating his wife's death and that he is under suspicion of murder.

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Recent miscellaneous viewing, part three

Recent miscellaneous viewing, part three

Yet more recent random viewing: Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s movie-biz tragedy The Barefoot Contessa (1954); Lucio Fulci’s first and (almost) last gialli, One on Top of the Other aka Perversion Story (1969) anf The New York Ripper (1982); […]

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