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A corpse is found in the trunk of a car that belongs to the Swiss ambassador to the UK. Speculations run wild, as more people around the ambassador keep falling victim to the vicious killer.... Read allA corpse is found in the trunk of a car that belongs to the Swiss ambassador to the UK. Speculations run wild, as more people around the ambassador keep falling victim to the vicious killer. A former detective is hired to investigate.A corpse is found in the trunk of a car that belongs to the Swiss ambassador to the UK. Speculations run wild, as more people around the ambassador keep falling victim to the vicious killer. A former detective is hired to investigate.

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Trivia
The films opening credits state it is based on the novel "A Room Without a Door", by Richard Mann. Italian film historian Roberto Curti said the novel was an invention of the filmmakers. The screenplay for the film was written by Sandro Continenza and Riccardo Freda, while other credited writers André Tranché and Günter Ebert were credited solely for co-production reasons.

Goofs
Mandel is talking to Norton on the phone in a dark room as the murderer approaches, but when it cuts to a shot of his fake-blood engorged prosthetic throat being slit, out of nowhere there's a spotlight on it.

Quotes
Ambassador Sobiesky: You bitch! You fucking bitch! You bitch, Bitch, BITCH!

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The film's opening credits state it is based on the novel "A Room Without a Door", by Richard Mann. Italian film historian Roberto Curti said the novel was an invention of the filmmakers.

Connections
Featured in Frightened Dagmar (2015)

Soundtracks
Habanera
Written by Georges Bizet
Performed by Valentina Cortese

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7/10

certainly entertaining enough

This starts very well, indeed, startlingly so with surreal quality about it as we proceed from outlandish and vivid killing to child finding body in trunk of car and something strange going on with eyes. Various persons emerge from secret doors and there is emphasis upon dark glasses and limited sight with some weird sound going off to suggest something untoward is about to happen. Things calm down and killing become a bit mundane, very bloody but not very involving until the end when things spark back into life. Along the way, Anton Differing is effective, if a little one note and Dagmar Lassander lovely as ever. Veteran actress, Valentina Cortese puts in a great little performance and Italian movie stalwart Luigi Pistilli is most effective. Great shots of Dublin and Switzerland along the way and if this is not the finest giallo, it is certainly entertaining enough.