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Young Annabella (Marina Paal) has a rich daddy, fruit merchant
Romanelli (Vladimir Medar), but nevertheless she is nothing short of a
slut who works as a stripper and eventually even takes up work as a whore
- and seems to like it. And she is the girlfriend of Alexander (Udo Kier),
a small fry crook in the protection and prostitution racket with big plans
... and she also
desperately tries to seduce a homosexual actor, Hohenberg (Louis Soldan)
... but then she is shot in his appartment. Hophenberg is the prime
suspect, but at a trial he is acquitted of the crime ...
Romanelli, the father of Annabella however, does not believe in
Hohenberg's innocence and hires Alexander and his gang - which includes
crooked lawyer Fuhrmann (Herbert Kersten) - to question Hohenberg
until he confesses, then execute him. However, Alexander also has a
personal interest in this, and when he questions Hohenberg he soon
realizes that Hohenberg is indeed innocent - and the killer has to be
someone else. So instead of just forcing Hohenberg to confess anyways and
make a bundle of money Romanelli has offered for his death, Alexander
investigates further, and soon he comes up with Johnny (Thomas Astor), the
son of Kowalski (Rolf Eden), whom Annabella worked for ... and all of a
sudden all clues lead to Kowalski himself, whom Alexander's gang soon
kidnaps.
But while Alexander and gang still try to force a confession out of
Kowalski, Kowalski's gang surround their hide-out and Romanelli kills
Hohenberg - who has since been proved innocent - anyways but makes it look
like suicide.
Soon enough, with Romanelli present, Kowalski starts telling the truth,
that Annabella wasn't only a slut and a whore, she also was pretty cunning
and used a hidden camera to film her with her johns, then blackmail them
with the films - reason enough it seems for Kowalski to kill her, but
still he insists he didn't do it ... and then, one of Annabella's films
shows her, masked, seducing her own father, then tearing off her mask and
threatening him - which was way too much for the Sicillian mentality of
Romanelli, who then saw himself forced to kill her, then put the blame on
Hohenberg.
Then all hell breaks loose when Alexander and gang find themselves in a
shoot-out with Kowalski - who has since gotten away - and his boys. In all
this chaos, Romanelli manages to get away, but then crashes his car into a
wall onto which - in best Roadrunner tradition - the dia of
an alleyway was projected.
So Alexander has emerged victorious, but his triumph does not last long
as he and his gang are soon riddled by bullets by Kowalski and gang ...
If you are looking for subtlety look elsewhere, for this is a very
blunt sex-and-crime film that tries to make the most of its sleazy subject
matter. If however you like cheap erotic thrillers from the late 1960's
for what they are - blunt but often charming pieces of sexploitation - you
will probably find yourself entertained, as this one is reasonably
fast-paced and well crafted - and it makes one wonder why there weren't
many more such pictures produced in Austria (which I, an Austrian, think
is a pity) ...
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