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Naked you Die
Schoolgirl Killer / Sieben Jungfrauen für den Teufel

Italy 1968
produced by
Virgilio Blasi for Super International Pictures
directed by Anthony M. Dawson (= Antonio Margheriti)
starring Mark Damon, Eleonora Brown, Michael Rennie, Sally Smith, Patrizia Valturri, Ludmila Lvova, Alan Collins (= Luciano Pigozzi), Franco De Rosa, Vivian Stapleton, Ester Masing, Aldo De Carellis, Giovanni Di Benedetto (as John Hawkwood), Valentino Macchi, Umberto Papiri, Caterina Trentini, Silvia Dionisio, Lorenza Guerrieri, Malisa Longo, Paolo Natale, Nando Angelini
story by Giovanni Simonelli, screenplay by Franco Bottari, Antonio Margheriti, music by Carlo Savina

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Someone is bumping off girls at an exclusive boarding school ... but who is the killer and why?

It's eventually found out that the killer is obviously after young Lucille (Eleonora Brown), who is about to inherit a large sum of money in a few weeks time, but who could he be?

The gardener (Alan Collins) maybe, who likes to do a little peeping in his spare time? How about the local entomologist (Aldo De Carellis)? The gym teacher (Giovanni Di Benedetto)? The principal (Vivian Stapleton)? Even one of the girls maybe? After much to and fro, riding teacher Richard (Mark Damon), also Lucille's secret lover, becomes the prime suspect, especially after he is nowhere to be found while the dead body of Ms Clay, one of the teachers, is discovered not far from the school.

But no, the real killer is ... Ms Clay (Ludmila Lvova), who isn't really Ms Clay at all and not even a woman, but Lucille's cousin who would get her inheritance in the case of her death. And now, with the real Ms Clay gone, the cousin thinks it's easy to bump off Lucille and take off with the money ...

Only in the last second is the fake Ms Clay shot down by the investigating inspector (Michael Rennie), who got called to the scene via walkie talkie by Lucille's spunky friend Jill (Sally Smith).

 

Flix.com

From the time when the Italian giallo-genre was still in its infancy, this is a lively if oldfashioned murder mystery very much reminiscent of the German Edgar Wallace-series ... which doesn't necessarily make Naked you Die a bad film - quite the contrary: While definitely no masterpiece, the film is well-paced, competently directed, enjoyably filled with primary colours, and expertly balanced between dorm romp and suspense thriller. The only problem is that the killer of the piece is given away way too soon, at least in the Italian language version: Ms Clay's voice sounds so unmistakingly male that you actually expect her to be revealed a crossdresser - and let's face it, aren't crossdressers always trouble (only on film of course, not in real life)?

Still, as a whole, the film is quite enjoyable.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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