A Quiet Place to Kill

A Quiet Place to Kill (Template:Langx) is a 1970 giallo film directed by Umberto Lenzi.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot

Helen, a racecar driver whose personal and professional life is rapidly declining, is invited by her ex-husband Maurice's new wife Constance to stay at their plush estate. The two women form a bond, and it is not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. Their plot to murder Maurice on a sailing trip goes awry, and Constance accidentally gets killed instead. Helen and her ex seize the moment and dispose of Constance's corpse at sea, but when the dead woman's daughter Susan arrives, the young lady suspects that they have murdered her mother.

Cast

Carroll Baker as Helene
Jean Sorel as Maurice Sauvage
Luis Dávila as Albert Duchamps
Alberto Dalbés as Dr. Harry Webb
Marina Coffa as Mrs. Susan
Anna Proclemer as Constance Sauvage
Lisa Halvorsen as Solange
Hugo Blanco
Jacques Stany

Release

The film was released in Italy on February 20, 1970 under the title Paranoia.^[4]

The film was released internationally in 1973 as A Quiet Place to Kill, since Lenzi's previous 1969 film Orgasmo (1969) had already been released internationally as Paranoia.Template:Sfn It was released in Spain as Una droga llamada Helen (Template:Literal translation "A Drug Named Helen").Template:Sfn

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin described the film as "both sluggish and scrappy, with Lenzi bravely throwing up a screen of object-fixated camerawork and fidgety focusing, but not receiving much help from his players".^[5]