Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?

Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?

1972 · 85 min · ★ 7.2 · Thriller

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...

Directed by Giuseppe Vari · Written by Thomas Lang

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Lou Castel Carlo
Beba Lončar Olga
Adolfo Celi Inspector Vezzi
Massimo Serato Uncle Fifi
Umberto D'Orsi Romano, Don Salvatore's lawyer
Renato Baldini Marshal Notarantonio
Consalvo Dell'Arti Superintendent Portella
Antonio La Raina Mauri
Carlo Landa Roversi
Carla Mancini Nightclub Employee
Renato Malavasi Vicenzino Rocca
Fortunato Arena Don Salvatore Aniello

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