Great Moments In Movie Shelves #175

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It should be noted that 99.9% of the rooms inside the luxe seaside Italian houses featured in the 1970 giallo The Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion are entirely shelf-free - these characters do not seem to have much of an interest in reading! - but it was either give this ridiculous moment of dramatic turtle revelation some love via the shelves glimpsed there in its background or give the movie some love via a "Great Moment in Movie Staches" post, and...

... ain't nobody here for calling that tragedy sitting astride the inspector's upper lip "great." Egads. Still I have been wanting to give The Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion a lot of love this week after watching it and falling in love, and not just so I could cut and paste its typically giallo-ian elongated title twenty times, but rather because this shit is a hoot and a blast, it's a bloot and a hast, and you should probably go find the blu-ray that Arrow Films just dropped on us, the unsuspecting public. It has everything...

Insane mod costumes, BDSM,

turtle action sequences, air-bound SCUBA interludes...

... excessive tranquilizer use, sheer curtains cordoning off 

one's telephone, hairy shoulders, a woman addicted to wigs...

I might go on and on...

... seriously I could go on and on, but it'd be better to let y'all discover the pleasure of this movie on your own. Unlike many of the lesser giallo The Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion isn't in the slightest a nonsensical slog - it's frothy fun, a soapy cocktail of Rosemary's Baby and Valley of the Dolls, all set to a cooing Ennio Morricone score. Go forth and watch, groovy babies!