Decemberdike # 11 A Quiet Place to Kill (Paranoia) (1970)
A fairly lackluster Giallo from the normally reliable Umberto Lenzi which sees Carroll Baker's racing driver invited by her ex-husband's (Jean Sorel) new wife to stay with them at their Majorcan home. Once there the two women plot to kill Sorel and inherit his fortune.
If you basically borrow the story from Clouzot's Diabolique then you'd better come up with something decent and sadly this isn't. It's quite dull for the most part and then decides to turn complex albeit not in a surprising way and ends up with a rather frantic and overly dramatic finale.
Carroll Baker is always good and never shy even aged forty whilst Sorel has been better, and Anna Proclemer as Sorel's current wife is under used. Lenzi's camerawork is stylish as are the locations and the soundtrack. Yet A Quiet Place to Kill is unfortunately instantly forgettable.
The Blu-ray from 88 Films looks the business.
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