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Femmine Insaziabili

The Insatiables
Gli Insaziabili / Carnal Circuit / Exzess / Mord im schwarzen Cadillac / Perversion / Beverly Hills

Italy / West Germany 1969
produced by
Edmondo Amati, Hans Pflüger for Empire Films, Hape-Film Company GmbH
directed by Alberto De Martino
starring Dorothy Malone, Robert Hoffmann, Luciana Paluzzi, Frank Wolff, John Ireland, Roger Fritz, Romina Power, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Ini Assmann, Rainer Basedow, Elena Persiani, Mario Chiocchio, Rosemarie Lindt
story by Alberto De Martino, Vincenzo Flamini, screenplay by Alberto De Martino, Vincenzo Flamini, Lianella Carell, Carlo Romano, music by Bruno Nicolai

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Paolo (Robert Hoffmann), an Italian journalist in LA, is pretty much beaten to a pulp by two ruffians who want to find out the whereabouts of someone he doesn't even know. And only when the two leave as they have run out of ways to make Paolo talk does that unknown someone make himself known to Paolo, and it's Giulio (Roger Fritz), Paolo's friend from back in Italy who has made it big in the US as the smiling face of International Chemicals - but apparently he has fallen foul of that company and now they want to eliminate him. Paolo decides he wants to write about this, but when he wants to meet with Giulio again for additional information, he's informed that Giulio has been killed and burnt to a crisp in a car crash. Only Paolo doesn't believe it was an accident, so he starts to investigate ... and soon learns the Giulio in LA hasn't been the Giulio he knows from back in Italy anymore, back where he would be a good husband and father and fight for workers' rights and stuff. No, the money International Chemicals has given him for his services has corrupted him, and the decadent society he was a part of in LA clearly left its mark on him and made him one of its most decadent and ruthless enforcers. So while Paolo questions Giulio's wife (Nicoletta Machiavelli), who has long separated from him, a shareholder of International Chemicals (Frank Wolff), Giulio's boss and lover (Dorothy Malone), that woman's promiscuous daughter (Romina Power) and all sorts of people in between, he's more and more repelled by the company Giulio kept and the monster he has become ... until he stumbles over - Giulio himself, very much alive, who has only faked his death to get away from International Chemicals, but needed to kill someone to take his place in the car crash, then keep on murdering - including Paolo's best friend and editor-in-chief (John Ireland) - to obscure the fact that he's still around. Ultimately, Paolo wants to hold Giulio responsible for all he did, but upon trying to make an escape, Giulio falls to his death. But it seems the lure of LA money and decadence slowly takes its grip on Paolo, too ...

 

The Insatiables is a little murder mystery that's not at all without its merits - the portrayal of decadent LA certainly does hold one's interest for sure -, but in the end, the whole thing's far too convoluted to properly work as a whodunnit while the solution to the whole thing is far too easily guessable from early on, plus in too many things, the film's quite the opposite of subtle. Sure, the whole thing's still suspenseful at times, sexy at others, and does feature some decent action - but that's not enough to make it really good when the whole thing's let down by its story.

 

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