After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several unscrupulous characters to believe that she is actually alive.
Acting
Kinski's sweaty desperation—man invents new ways to look haunted.
Cinematography
Freda frames every shadow like it's guilty of something.
Direction
Riccardo Freda's final film, and he goes out sneering.
Director
Riccardo Freda
Klaus Kinski
John Alexander
Christiane Krüger
Christine
Günther Stoll
Inspektor Steevens
Annabella Incontrera
Liz
Margaret Lee
Helen Alexander
Sydney Chaplin
Mr.Brown
Barbara Nelli
Alice
Gastone Pescucci
Peter
Claudio Trionfi
Bedy Moratti
(uncredited)
Fulvio Pellegrino
Policeman (uncredited)
Domenico Ravenna
Spectator at horse race (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Freda was Mario Bava's mentor and the godfather of Italian horror; this was his cynical farewell.
The film exists in three radically different cuts—German, Italian, and French—with entirely different scores and endings.
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