One on Top of the Other (1969)

Original title

Una sull'altra

Directed by

Lucio Fulci

Genre

crime film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

16

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 95 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A San Francisco doctor suspects his wife faked her death for an insurance scam. He gets drawn into a dangerous affair with a stripper who looks just like her.

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What happens

One on Top of the Other (Italian: Una sull'altra, which the English title translates accurately but without expressing twice the feminine), also known as Perversion Story, is a 1969 giallo film directed by Lucio Fulci. Written by Fulci and Roberto Gianviti, the film stars Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli, Alberto de Mendoza and John Ireland. The first giallo directed by Fulci, its plot concerns George Dumurrier (Sorel), an unscrupulous San Franciscan doctor who is suspected of orchestrating the death of his asthmatic wife Susan (Mell) as part of an insurance scam, despite her seeming reemergence as Monica Weston, a high-class stripper. One on Top of the Other was filmed on location in several United States cities, including a scene filmed in San Quentin State Prison's gas chamber. The film went on to gross 869,000,000 Italian lire and has been cited as a thematic precursor to later films such as Basic Instinct and Body of Evidence. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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