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Schamlos

Austria / West Germany / France 1968
produced by
Herbert Heidmann for Commerz Film
directed by Eddy Saller
starring Udo Kier, Rolf Eden, Marina Paal, Vladimir Medar, Herbert Kersten, Louis Soldan, Thomas Astor, Inge Toifl, Edgar Wenzel, Gino Baldini, Joe Palt, Rudi Schippel
screenplay by E.Neumayr, Eddy Saller, based on the book by Karl Hans Koizar, Theodor Ottawa, music by Gerhard Heinz

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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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) ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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