Deadly Sweet

Nov 16, 1967

1h 47m

★ 5.2

That "Candy" girl is at it again...and again...and again

Overview

Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in law. In the same Night Club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So Bernard and Jane run away followed by a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss and of course, the Police. They believe that Jerome, Jane's brother, can help them to solve the case. But Jane doesn't know where he is, or so she says. Corpse after corpse, Bernard will find out the truth. But will the truth help him?

Genres

Thriller

Mystery

Production Companies

Les Films Corona

Panda - Società per l'Industria Cinematografica

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Cast

Bernard

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jane Burroughs

Ewa Aulin

David

Roberto Bisacco

Martha Burroughs

Vira Silenti

Salon Receptionist (uncredited)

Janet Street-Porter

Bartender

Enzo Consoli

Jerome Burroughs

Charles Kohler

Jelly-Roll

Luigi Bellini

Veronica Yassupova

Monique Scoazec

Dwarf (uncredited)

Skip Martin

Jelly-Roll's Partner (uncredited)

David Prowse

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Deadly Sweet

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