Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?
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Carlo, a young photographer, is making love with his girlfriend at the beach when he witnesses a murder being feebly staged to look like a car accident. Carlo takes incriminating shots of the murderers (the victim turns out to be the local public prosecutor) and attempts to sell them to various interested parties, including a gangster and a newspaper owner. One of the murderers' accomplices, a lowlife criminal, is gunned down by a black-gloved assassin, while another is stabbed to death...
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Cast
19 people
Lou Castel
Carlo
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Carla Mancini
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Giuseppe Vari Director · Thomas Lang Screenplay Mario Bertolazzi Composer
First release April 15, 1972 · Produced in Italy · Production Ital-Victoria Films
Production
Castor Films
Production
Ital-Victoria Films
Production
Italy
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Terza ipotesi su un caso di perfetta strategia criminale
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · April 15, 1972
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Germany
November 5, 1987 · TV · TV premiere
Spain
December 9, 1974 · Theatrical · Madrid
Türkiye
September 25, 1973 · Theatrical
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