Director: Osvaldo Civirani
Writers: Tito Carpi and Osvaldo Civirani
From: Drive-In
A woman is mistaken for her twin sister by gangsters trying to recover a stolen diamond.
Julie Harrison, after a party, is stalked by someone who takes pictures of her face. The next day, she visits the lawyer she met that night, Dave Barton, who’s being visited by his friend Tony. After leaving the office, Julie is assaulted on the sidewalk only to be saved by Tony and Dave. She starts a relationship with Tony while Dave starts pursuing an independent investigation into her.
What we learn is that Julie has a twin sister, Mary, who was married to a gangster. She was involved in a diamond heist and ripped her husband off. Now she’s calling Julie, trying to line up safe passage while sundry criminal forces mistake Julie for Mary.
After a fairly lengthy series of crosses and double-crosses, it’s revealed that Tony is Mary’s gangster husband. He and the other gang hunting the diamond cross paths, everyone dies, and Julie leaves safely. As she rushes to catch a plane, the police inspector tells his assistant that Julie died two years prior. The “Julie” we’d been watching was Mary and the diamond she’s carrying is a fake—the real one was never stolen. Dave meets her on the plane revealing that he knows the truth as well, minus the fake diamond, and the pair fly off assuming they’ll live off the sale of the diamond that neither knows is fake. THE END.
There’s very little tension in the film considering there’s an armed gang stalking the lead and the police never trust the principle characters. The sense of a closing net is never present. Instead, the film’s about the various figures crossing and double-crossing each other, but you can only recognize that if you know how the movie ends. Otherwise the moves are too subtle. Since the movie doesn’t spend much time on characters openly distrusting each other or escaping ever-closer moments of peril, the majority of the film is spent with them all just hanging out. The movie doesn’t offend in any particular way, but that’s less to do with the content than it is to do with the fact that it doesn’t move at all. While it’s not painfully boring, it’s just not that interesting, so it’s not a recommend.
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