Review of Una jena in cassaforte

Well, this is fun and not at all anything like I was expecting. From the director of The Nude Princess and Gestapo's Last Orgy one might have expected something more rough, ready and extreme but this is very much a product of its year (1968) and I think I could describe it as a giallo comedy. Not laugh out loud funny but there are amusing moments and the film does not take itself too seriously. Just as well because it is all a bit ludicrous but done with such style and panache. Colourful, ever eventful and the lovely girls all look well in their many and various costumes, while the slightly convoluted (OK and slightly silly) plot unfolds. There are killings and if not particularly explicit or even always on screen there is alternative violence elsewhere including a startling strip search of Cristina Gaioni, I believe it was. Maria Luisa Geisberger is sensational in the main female lead role and I am stunned to discover it is her only screen credit. One of the most unusual and psychedelic tinged gialli.