The Double (1971 film)


The Double also known as Love Inferno, is a 1971 Italian giallo film directed by Romolo Guerrieri. It stars Ewa Aulin. The story was based on a novel called La controfigura by Libero Bigiaretti.

Plot

A rich young man named Frank, who lives off his father, is shot in a parking garage and as he lays bleeding, he thinks back over recent past events in his life. While vacationing in Morocco with his beautiful 19-year-old girlfriend Lucia, Frank became jealous of her interest in a young American traveler named Eddie. Frank later develops a fixation on the girl's pretty mother Nora and forces her physically into having sex with him. Later he follows Nora back to Rome, where he becomes convinced that now she is having relations with the young American Eddie. He later finds Eddie murdered in Nora's apartment, and thinking that she killed him, he tries to protect her by disposing of the corpse. But then he finds out Nora wasn't even in Rome when the murder occurred! Frank has to find out who killed Eddie and if perhaps his girlfriend Lucia was involved.

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