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Actors: Frank Wolff, Susan Scott, Simon Andreu, Claudie Lange
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Death Walks on High Heels |
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DEATH WALKS ON HIGH HEELS (La Morte cammina con i tacchi alti) was directed by the Italian director Luciano Ercoli in 1971.
The father of the stripper Nicole Rochard, a well-known thief, has just been murdered in a night train. The French police thinks that the murderer wanted to recover the diamonds Nicole's father was meant to carry with him. A few days later, Nicole is attacked by a masked man who urges her to tell him where these diamonds are. She believes that the stabber is her own boy-friend Michel Aumont and decides then in a hurry to accompany Robert Matthews, a married British doctor who fell for her after having seen one of her acts, to London.
Matthews drives Nicole to a cottage on the Atlantic coast and both spend a few weeks in a perfect harmony. One night, Vanessa, Matthews's wife, comes to visit Nicole and offers her money so that she leaves England. Nicole refuses and is murdered a few hours later. Meanwhile, Matthews is shot in his clinic and grievously wounded. The two Scotland Yard inspectors in charge of the cases don't have any clues and the main suspects, Michel Aumont and Vanessa Matthews have alibis. Two days later, Vanessa Matthews is also murdered.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Death Walks on High Heels |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 70%
Murders of set profession?
- prostitutes/strippers/porn
Misc. Plotlets
- local police have IQ of houseplant
Special suspect?
- lover
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- prostitute/concubine
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- long, wavey (woman)
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- doctor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
City?
Yes
City:
- London
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Kind of violence:
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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