What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)

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What Have You Done to Solange? is a 1972 giallo film directed by Massimo Dallamano. The film was based (loosely) on the Edgar Wallace mystery novel The Clue of the New Pin. It was shot on location in London, England over the course of six weeks in the fall of 1971. The films Italian title is Cosa avete fatto a Solange? In recent years the film has gained a reputation as one of the better giallo films of the early 70's from fans of the genre.

Plot

Italian teacher Enrico Rosseni is having an affair with one of his lovely young students. While on an afternoon outing the two lovers learn that a fellow student is brutally murdered mere yards from them. Now other female students are being targeted by a killer with a sinister vendetta and Rosseni is looking like a suspect.

Directed by Massimo Dallamano - Produced by Leo Pescarolo - Written by Bruno Di Geronimo, Massimo Dallamano - Starring Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger, Cristina Galbó, Camille Keaton, Fabio Testi - Music by Ennio Morricone - Cinematography Joe D'Amato - Editing by Antonio Siciliano - Release date 1972 - Running time 105 min - Country Italy

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Have_You_Done_to_Solange%3F

"On the surface, What Have You Done to Solange?, or to use its original Italian title Cosa Avete Fatto a Solange?, is just one of an almost uncountable number of gialli released in the 1970s, riding on the coat-tails of the success of Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. It has everything you would expect (and hope) to find in such a film: a baffling whodunit, an overshadowing of the proceedings by childhood trauma, weak dubbing, nubile naked girls, and of course, my personal favourite, the black-gloved killer. Solange, however, is difficult to dismiss as a generic clone or mere entertainment. It has a way of getting under your skin and sticking in your mind long after the closing credits have finished rolling."

--Michael Mackenzie