''A Black Veil for Lisa'' ( it, La morte non ha sesso, lit. "Death has no sex") is a 1968 thriller film directed by

Massimo Dallamano Massimo Dallamano (17 April 1917 – 4 November 1976), sometimes credited as Max Dillman, Max Dillmann or Jack Dalmas, was an Italian director and director of photography. Life and career Born in Milan, Dallamano began in the 1940s as camera ...

Plot

When a narcotics detective finds out that his beautiful wife (who is an ex-criminal) is cheating on him, he hires a professional hitman to bump her off. However, things don't go quite according to plan. Instead of killing the woman, the hitman ends up sleeping with her, and they begin an affair.

Cast

Production

''A Black Veil for Lisa'' was shot in 1968 in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

under the title ''Vicolo cieco''. Curti described the style of the film as "remarkably different" from the Italian thrillers of the period, and closer to Anglo-Saxon and German models of the style.

Release

''A Black Veil for Lisa'' was released in Italy in September 1968. was shown in Germany as ''Das Geheimnis der jungen Witwe'' (translation: ''Mystery of the Young Widow''). in this country, it was promoted as being part of the

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series. It was also released as ''Showdown''.

Reception

From contemporary reviews, "Whit." of ''

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'' described the film as an "okay programmer" and that "

's direction ..is as sturdy as script, on which he also collabed, will permit, and color camera work by Angelo Lotti is particularly effective."

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External links

* 1968 films Giallo films 1960s Italian-language films Films directed by Massimo Dallamano Films set in West Germany Films scored by Gianfranco Reverberi Films scored by Giovanni Fusco 1960s Italian films {{crime-thriller-film-stub