FOURTH VICTIM, THE (1971 SPAIN / ITALY)
AKA "Death at the Deep End of the Swimming Pool, La última señora Anderson"
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Directed by Eugenio Martín
Starring: Carroll Baker, Michael Craig, Miranda Campa
Genres: Crime, Giallo, Spanish, Italian, Thriller
84 minutes | Full Screen | Color | English with Greek subtitles
Filmmaker and poet Eugenio Martin directed this Italian-Spanish co-production, a labyrinthine British-set giallo starring Michael Craig as Arthur Anderson, who finds the nude body of his dead wife Gladys floating in his swimming pool. After he and his housekeeper dress the corpse and call the police, it seems as if the determination will be that Gladys accidentally drowned, but the police open a murder investigation on the day of her funeral. Like the clever black widow in the later Dutch thriller De Vierde Man, it appears that Arthur has had three previous spouses die under mysterious circumstances. Fortunately for him, his housekeeper lies at the trial and gets Arthur off the hook. That's when the beautiful Julie Spencer (giallo veteran Carroll Baker) shows up in his pool late at night, leading to an instant romance and rapid marriage, but Julie has secrets of her own. Laced with a wonderful Piero Umiliani score. (Visual note: Static briefly flashes on the screen every minute)
