Who Saw Her Die? (1972)

Another giallo from the fine gent who made Short Night of Glass Dolls. This one looked like it'd be on par with that magnificent thriller for the majority of its length -- instead of political depth, the resonance in this one comes from a pure, wrenching emotional place. Just as I was about to crown this one another mini-masterpiece, it mutated into a well-shot but standard giallo with inconsistencies and illogic piled to the ceiling (f'rinstance, a killer who can seemingly travel all over Venice in a matter of minutes and can messily strangle a girl in the front of a packed movie theater without anyone noticing). The ending is simultaneously very tense and very stupid, and the final line of dialogue is a kick in the teeth to the dominating subtext (though, to be fair, it was obviously an attempt to appease the censors and certain interest groups). Still worth it for genre fanatics.

Grade: B-