Ace Up My Sleeve (1975) aka Crime and Passion, a more commercial but dumber and more banal title, released in the US as an AIP release. Rated R no less ;)
Omar Sharif, Karen Black, Joseph Buttoms, Bernhard Wicki in an Euro-Trash picture that kind of nobody saw or cares about...
It made me curios because of the cast in checking Ivan Passer's filmography, which I rechecked due to Cutter's Way And then I found it on you tube in its entirety, widescreen and with German titles (they called the film Frankenstein's Spukschloss -Horror Castle of Frankenstein !!!). I guess it'll stay there, and here's the link. It's a real curio. Shot in Austria, in the winter on the ski slopes it features some great ski sequences, some car chases and crashes, weird and kinky sex & sweets/pastry eating (Karen Black tops it ;), Sharif's character Andre Ferren is a sex nut...
Anyway (s;), you gotta see this as I won't spoil stuff as the plot goes bonkers and further in the snows, act 3 is chaos itself, especially the ending -even a Shining resemblance.
Co-written by 5 people (not at the same time;), including Passer & William Richert (Winter Kills) the film says it's based on James Hadley Chase's novel Ace Up My Sleeve, but it seems it bares no resemblance at all. Some interesting details about the changes here !
Music by Vangelis of all people...does not fit the film at all...great score tho...it has all the Vangelis DNA. The music can be heard here
The reviews are delightful:
"Crime and Passion" is not only one of the silliest films ever made but one of the most inexplicable"
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