Downtown (1975)

08/28/1975Comedy, Crime1h 27m
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Overview

A private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich husband in bed with another woman. But when the husband winds up with three bullet holes that seem to have come from the private eye's own gun, he's got to prove he's not the murderer meanwhile getting tangled deeper in a web of deceit, lies, and steamy night club dancers!

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Jesús Franco

    Al Pereira

  2. Cast 1

    Lina Romay

    Cynthia

  3. Cast 1

    Paul Müller

    Inspector Mendoza

  4. Cast 1

    Martine Stedil

    Lola

  5. Cast 1

    Beni Cardoso

    Rita

  6. Cast 1

    Raymond Hardy

    Pepe

  7. Cast 1

    Martina Domingo

    Stripper

  8. Cast 1

    Peggy Markoff

    Lady at the bar

  9. Cast 1

    Eric Falk

    Carlos Rivas

All in all, one of the best Franco's movies, having a plausible story (albeit with some plot holes) and a quite convincing performance by the actors. As in many other movies from the same director in that period, there is no shortage of skin display by female actresses (the scrumptious Martine Stedil and the inevitable Lina Romay), perhaps encouraged by the apparent tropical climate of a place that is looking a lot like Nice in southern France (despite it being declared Porto Santo in the narration). Indeed, the main location is Beaulieu-sur-Mer, a seaside village on the French Riviera betwee...

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Original LanguageGerman 

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