Director and co-writer Gianni Manera only directed two other movies - 1974's La lunga ombra del lupo and 1981's Il cappotto di legno - and acted in 17 films, including this movie. He wrote the screenplay with his brother Enrico and Ivano Gobbo.
Luca Albanese (Manera) comes back to Italy from the United States to mastermind a robbery. Afterward, he, his team and their women escape to their hideout to await further instructions, but one by one they are killed by a black-gloved murderer and - to live up to this film's title, Orders Signed In White - their heads are painted white.
This movie goes from poliziotteschi to giallo to a haunted house story to a political thriller all within one movie and yet has long stretches where nothing happens which is some kind of achievement. What you have to appreciate about Italian exploitation filmmakers that even with all these narrative shifts, two of the mob wives still have time to make love to one another. It's that dedication to cinema that keeps bringing me back.
Luca Albanese (Manera) comes back to Italy from the United States to mastermind a robbery. Afterward, he, his team and their women escape to their hideout to await further instructions, but one by one they are killed by a black-gloved murderer and - to live up to this film's title, Orders Signed In White - their heads are painted white.
This movie goes from poliziotteschi to giallo to a haunted house story to a political thriller all within one movie and yet has long stretches where nothing happens which is some kind of achievement. What you have to appreciate about Italian exploitation filmmakers that even with all these narrative shifts, two of the mob wives still have time to make love to one another. It's that dedication to cinema that keeps bringing me back.