Luigi Bazzoni (
Le Orme) directed this outstanding giallo thriller starring
Franco Nero as a hard-drinking newspaperman who gets involved in a string of brutal murders. After he investigates the first, he becomes a suspect himself but eventually manages to unravel a complex plot involving blackmail, adultery, and private sex shows.
Wolfgang Preiss plays a creepy doctor, and
Edmund Purdom is around as well. The impressive score is by
Ennio Morricone, and the film looks great thanks to cinematographer
Vittorio Storaro, who won an Academy Award for
The Godfather the following year. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide