Carnal Circuit

1969 film

Lianellà Carell
Carlo Romano
Alberto De Martino
Vincenzo Flamini

Produced byHans PflügerStarring

Dorothy Malone
John Ireland
Luciana Paluzzi
Romina Power
Frank Wolff
Robert Hoffmann

CinematographySergio D'OffiziEdited byOtello ColangeliMusic byBruno Nicolai

Production
companies

Empire Films S.r.l.
Corona Filmproduktion GmbH^[1]

Distributed byFida
Nora Filmverleih GmbH & Co. KG^[1]^[2]

Release dates

August 14, 1969 (1969-08-14) (Italy)
August 13, 1970 (1970-08-13) (West Germany)

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Running time

93 minutes^[2]Countries

Italy
West Germany^[2]

LanguagesItalian
English

Carnal Circuit (Italian: Femmine insaziabili, German: Mord im schwarzen Cadillac, also known as The Insatiables and Beverly Hills) is a 1969 Italian-German giallo written and directed by Alberto De Martino.^[3]^[1]^[4]^[5]

Plot

A man hides his best friend from the criminals out to get him and suffers a violent beating. His friend gets killed, and he tries to find out why.

Cast

Dorothy Malone as Vanessa Brighton
Robert Hoffmann as Paolo Vittori
Luciana Paluzzi as Mary Sullivan
Frank Wolff as Frank Donovan
John Ireland as Walter Salinger
Roger Fritz as Giulio Lamberti
Romina Power as Gloria Brighton
Nicoletta Machiavelli as Luisa Lamberti
Ini Assmann as Salinger's secretary
Rosemarie Lindt as Patty
Elena Persiani as Claire
Rainer Basedow as Donovan's henchman
John Karlsen as Fletcher
Rod Dana as Charlie

Production

Carnal Circuit was shot in Rome between February 12, 1968, and February 1969.^[2]

During an underwater scene the camera operator unexpectedly and without Romina Power's knowing, pulled down the bottom part of her swimsuit. For a moment you can see her bum. Afterwards, Romina's mother went to the producer Goffredo Lombardo shouting and complaining about director Alberto De Martino.^[6]

Release

In West Germany, Carnal Circuit was released on August 13, 1970.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. "Femmine insaziabili". Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Mord im schwarzen Cadillac". Filmportal.de. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
^ Margot Winick (1996). Spaghetti Nightmares. Fantasma Books, 1996. ISBN 0963498274.
^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
^ Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer,1999. ISBN 8820029197.
^ Darkening the Italian Screen: Interviews with Genre and Exploitation, p. 101, p. 101, at Google Books