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“I'm telling you the truth – believe it or not!”
Utilising much of the same cast and crew as he had done with his previous two
forays into the giallo genre, Director Luciano Ercoli's third – and final –
giallo film is less interested in murder and mayhem at the hands of a
black-clad killer and much more taken with its leading lady. Having been
portrayed in The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970)
as a free-love nympho, Nieves Navarro (who would go on to spend the rest
of her life with Ercoli as husband and wife) advanced up the ladder of
gialli's roster of ladies in peril. In Death Walks On High Heels (1971),
Navarro is portrayed with love as a far more rounded, yet still sexual being,
whose forthright attitude enthrals or confounds the men in her life. However,
in what was to become one of her strongest roles, Navarro (aka Susan Scott)
kept her clothes on and her fists at the ready for Death Walks At Midnight,
which could arguably be considered the 'girl power beacon' of the entire
genre...
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