house at night (her husband is absent, as is the servant) with the intention to attack and kill her. In the middle of the attack, Peter comes into the house and shoots the blackmailer dead. Minou is wounded but still alive. Then suddenly the police arrive to arrest Peter - revealing that Peter had arranged a plot to murder his wife and cash in a large insurance policy that he took out for her life. Peter has employed the blackmailer (whom he met by chance on a trip to Copenhagen - hence the photograph) to intimidate his wife and arranged the final attack so that Peter would appear to be an innocent victim and thus claim the life insurance to rescue his business finances. Cast Dagmar Lassander - Minou Pier Paolo Capponi - Peter Simon Andreu - The Blackmailer Osvaldo Genazzani - Frank, the Commissioner Salvador Huguet - George Susan Scott as Dominique Production Le foto proibite di una signora per bene marks the first collaboration between director Luciano Ercoli and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi, who would later work together on 1971's La morte cammina con i tacchi alti and 1972's La morte accarezza a mezzanotte. The film has been cited as "defin[ing] Ercoli's style", featuring the recurring theme of "the nightmare of being threatened by one's own sexual partner". Composer Ennio Morricone's bossa nova-influenced score has been compared to the works of Brazilian bossa nova artist Antônio Carlos Jobim. Several of Morricone's compositions for the film feature Edda Dell'Orso on vocals; Morricone and Dell'Orso frequently worked together on his film scores. Bruno Nicolai conducted the score for the film. Release Le foto proibite di una signora per bene was released in Italy on November 19, 1970. The film has also been released under the title Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion. An English-language DVD release under the title The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion was published by Blue Underground on March 28, 2006. Reception The "explicit connection between female sexuality and violence" in Le foto proibite di una signora per bene has been cited as a precursor to "sexually-themed" giallo films such as La ragazza dal pigiama giallo and Tenebrae. AllMovie's Robert Firsching has also described the "vibrant Ennio Morricone score and slick photography by Alejandro Ulloa" as highlights of the film. Writing for DVD Talk, Ian Jane rated the film three-and-a-half stars out of five, praising