Special Killers (Italian title: La ragazza di via Condotti, French title: Meurtres à Rome or Le crime de la via Condotti, Spanish title: La chica de via Condotti) is a 1973 Italian-French-Spanish crime-thriller film directed by Germán Lorente. The film stars are Frederick Stafford, Femi Benussi, Claude Jade and Michel Constantin.[1]

Special Killers
Poster "Meurtres à Rome" (La ragazza di via Condotti)
Directed byGermán Lorente
Written byGermán Lorente
Adriano Asti
Miguel de Echarri
Produced byRoberto Sabbatini
StarringFrederick Stafford
Femi Benussi
CinematographyMario Capriotti
Music byEnrico Simonetti
Production
companies
Zafes Film
Midega Film
Mandala Film
Release dates
  • 11 August 1973 (1973-08-11) (Italy)
  • 7 December 1977 (1977-12-07) (France)
Running time
97 minutes
CountriesSpain
France
Italy
LanguageItalian

Plot

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An attractive brunette, Simone Mattei (Patty Shepard) is drunk and argues with her husband Sandro (Frederick Stafford). This visits his best friend Tiffany (Claude Jade) and complains her his suffering in the marriage crisis. While Sandro stays at Tiffany, Simone makes love with a lover. The tough guy penetrates her and starts at the same time to strangle her. He keeps on strangling the beauty until she is dead. An hour later, Sandro, who is a private investigator, finds his dead wife Simone. He comments the murder with "poor little bitch", but beside the victim he also discovers a photo showing a man on a motorcycle and a woman with glasses in the background. Now he wants to find the murderer. His girlfriend Tiffany, who works as a photographer, makes a "Blow-up" from the photograph. Tiffany recognizes as the woman with glasses a certain Laura Damiani (Femi Benussi). Sandro and Tiffany are looking for her and they found her as stripper in a night club in Rome. While Tiffany has an unrequited crush on him, Sandro start to fall in love with Laura, mistress of an unscrupulous lawyer (Alberto de Mendoza). And Laura is mixed up in blackmail, crimes and shady business.

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References

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  1. ^ Roberto Curti (22 October 2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland, 2013. ISBN 978-0786469765.
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