Completed - ITALIAN - Crime - 99 minutes
Year of production : 1970 Director(s) : Sandrone DIZAERI Writer(s) : Sandrone DAZIERI, Andrea GARELLO Cast : Francesco FOTI, Stefania ORSOLA GARELLO, Francesco SALVI, Flaminia PARNASI
Samuele was once a famous comedian. Together with Luca, his partner under the spotlight, he was once very popular. Then Samuele - Sammy for his admirers - started drinking, and the audiences stopped laughing. Caterina, his girlfriend, left him for Luca, and his life began a dizzying downward slide. A number of years have gone by, and now Samuele - cured of his drinking - has a small cabaret nightspot and lots of memories. Then, one evening, his old friend Luca is murdered. The prime suspect is Caterina. For years the couple has consumed large quantities of cocaine, and they were always fighting. Caterinas lawyer goes to see Samuele and asks him to help his client by acting as an investigator in the bars and nightspots that he knows so well. While making the rounds, Samuele meets Lisa, a bar waitress. Lisa and Samuele become involved. The woman has a twelve-year-old son whom she wants to launch in the world of entertainment, and she asks Sammy to show him the ropes. But then the former comedian discovers the brutal truth: it was Lisa who killed Luca, after stealing the sketches and jokes that Luca was writing for an attempted comeback, and which Lisas son was supposed to use to win a competition that would surely have opened the golden doors of the world of television.
Country(ies) : ITALY