1971 · giallo · heist · thriller
Death Walks on High Heels
Directed by Luciano Ercoli1h 48m1971
Exotic dancer Nicole finds herself terrorized by a black-clad assailant determined on procuring her murdered father's stolen gems. Fleeing Paris in hopes of evading her knife-wielding pursuer, Nicole arrives in England only to discover that death stalks her at every corner.
Our read: Death Walks on High Heels (1971) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive giallo · heist · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured giallo / heist, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
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