The Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion (1970) ***

The Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion arrived at the end of 1970, the same year that Argento's The Bird With The Crystal Plumage catapulted the giallo to popularity (though before the genre's boom and saturation the two years following). Despite having one of the very best titles for a giallo ever, a great visual style, beautiful costumes, a sultry, bossa nova-flavored Morricone score, and assured direction by Luciano Ercoli, Forbidden Photos is a bit slow, the mystery isn't all that interesting, there isn't a single on-screen kill until the "twist" at the end, and the ending itself is pretty unexciting. There is a definite attractive quality to the film; I just wouldn't rank it high on my list of top gialli.

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