Professor Riccardo Dossi (Chris Avram) is having an affair with Benedetta (Anna Gael) - the young daughter of his best friend - and being blackmailed by his daughter Lilla (Angela McDonald) and her boyfriend - and Riccardo's tennis coach - Sandro (Roberto Bisacco). It's as much a crime of manners and trying to explain the rich and their issues in the late 60s as it is a giallo, but man, it looks great, the world that these people live in is gorgeous and Gael barely can keep her clothes on.
Gael was also Anna Abigail Thynn, Marchioness of Bath; Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath; Viscountess Weymouth; the Dowager Marchioness; the Honorable Lady Thynn. Yes, beyond starring in movies like Therese and Isabelle, Dracula and Son and Zeta One, she met Alexander Thyn, Viscount Weymouth, in Paris in 1959. They had an affair that lasted for ten years until they were married in 1969. She was 15 when they met.
Unknown to the wealthy Riccardo, the three students want to execute - morally, that is - capitalists and weaken the system. They do it through sex, which is the weapon that no old white man can resist. Except that after he gets blackmailed at the tennis club - man, the heat of bourgeois - he takes the young girl home and balls her, only to have her overdose during the act. What's a rich man to do? And what if she's faking the big death, if not the little one?
Based on a novel by Alberto Moravia, this was directed by Franco Rossetti, who was one of the writers of Django and also the director of Emanuelle and Joanna, an Italian softcore movie with Sherry Buchanan in the cast. This was written by Ugo Guerra, Franco Rossetti, Francesco Scardamaglia and Moravia.
The band that recorded the soundtrack, The Rage Within, get their name from the English title for the film, even if the literal translation would be Crime at the Tennis Club. Composed by Phil Chilton and Peter L. Smith, the music was made to take over the storytelling, as there are long stretches without dialogue. Quartet Records, who have re-released it on vinyl, described it as "Think of it as Zabriskie Point, but without the star power of Pink Floyd."
Gael was also Anna Abigail Thynn, Marchioness of Bath; Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath; Viscountess Weymouth; the Dowager Marchioness; the Honorable Lady Thynn. Yes, beyond starring in movies like Therese and Isabelle, Dracula and Son and Zeta One, she met Alexander Thyn, Viscount Weymouth, in Paris in 1959. They had an affair that lasted for ten years until they were married in 1969. She was 15 when they met.
Unknown to the wealthy Riccardo, the three students want to execute - morally, that is - capitalists and weaken the system. They do it through sex, which is the weapon that no old white man can resist. Except that after he gets blackmailed at the tennis club - man, the heat of bourgeois - he takes the young girl home and balls her, only to have her overdose during the act. What's a rich man to do? And what if she's faking the big death, if not the little one?
Based on a novel by Alberto Moravia, this was directed by Franco Rossetti, who was one of the writers of Django and also the director of Emanuelle and Joanna, an Italian softcore movie with Sherry Buchanan in the cast. This was written by Ugo Guerra, Franco Rossetti, Francesco Scardamaglia and Moravia.
The band that recorded the soundtrack, The Rage Within, get their name from the English title for the film, even if the literal translation would be Crime at the Tennis Club. Composed by Phil Chilton and Peter L. Smith, the music was made to take over the storytelling, as there are long stretches without dialogue. Quartet Records, who have re-released it on vinyl, described it as "Think of it as Zabriskie Point, but without the star power of Pink Floyd."