Originally titled Orgasmo, Umberto Lenzi's 1969 thriller starred blacklisted Hollywood star Carroll Baker (Ice Station Zebra) as a wealthy widow whose corruption at the hands of a younger man (Lou Castel from Marco Bellocchio's Fists In The Pocket) and his "sister" (Colette Descombes from The Erotic Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) leads to a twist (and twisted) conclusion. Lenzi peppers the usual misogyny with a trace of class consciousness, though Baker's character is, as might be expected of the genre, the target of both. The assistant to the director was none other than award-winning Bertrand Tavernier ('Round Midnight).
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