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Plot

An attractive brunette, Simone Mattei (

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) is drunk and argues with her husband Sandro (

). This visits his best friend Tiffany (

) and complains her his suffering in the marriage crisis. While Sandro stays at Tiffany, Simone makes love with a lover. The tough guy penetrates her and starts at the same time to strangle her. He keeps on strangling the beauty until she is dead. An hour later, Sandro, who is a

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, finds his dead wife Simone. He comments the murder with "poor little bitch", but beside the victim he also discovers a photo showing a man on a motorcycle and a woman with glasses in the background. Now he wants to find the murderer. His girlfriend Tiffany, who works as a

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, makes a "Blow-up" from the photograph. Tiffany recognizes as the woman with glasses a certain Laura Damiani (

). Sandro and Tiffany are looking for her and they found her as stripper in a

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. While Tiffany has an unrequited crush on him, Sandro start to fall in love with Laura, mistress of an unscrupulous lawyer (Alberto de Mendoza). And Laura is mixed up in blackmail, crimes and shady business.

Cast

as Sandro *

as Laura *

as Tiffany *

as Palma * Alberto de Mendoza as Russo *

Simón Andreu Simón Andreu Trobat (born 1 January 1941) is a Spanish actor. He has appeared in more than 180 films and television shows since 1961. In 2013 he was awarded the Nosferatu Award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya f ...

as Mario *

Manuel de Blas Manuel de Blas Muñoz (born 12 April 1941) is a Spanish film, television, and stage actor. Biography Manuel de Blas was born in Badajoz in 1941 and was raised in Córdoba. At age 14, he moved to Madrid. He studied a degree in political science ...

as Franco Bertoni *

as Simone *

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as Gina Necioni *

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as Taxi Driver *Giuseppe Castellano as Broccole *

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as District Attorney *

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as Bartender

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Special Killers 1973 films Italian crime thriller films French crime thriller films Spanish crime thriller films 1973 crime thriller films 1970s Italian-language films 1970s Italian films 1970s French films Films scored by Enrico Simonetti Italian-language Spanish films Italian-language French films Italian-language crime thriller films