The Devil With Seven Faces (1971)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2011
SYNOPSIS: An Italian suspense film where a beautiful woman is (allegedly) mistaken for
her twin sister by some jewel thieves who think she has a million-dollar
diamond. She's helped by her lawyer and his friend Tony. She gets quite
chummy with the latter until she finds out he's one of the thieves -- her
sister's no-account ex-husband, in fact! Then it's revealed that the woman
herself is the diamond thief and no longer has a twin; she was both of them
all along. The lawyer doesn't care. She's hot. Add a bunch of murders and
an overly suave police captain, and you've got this film. The only reason
for the title that I can think of was that this was about the same time as
The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao; or perhaps that like The Three Faces of Eve, it's about multiple personality disorder. Except in
this movie, the woman wasn't insane, and was fully aware she was trying to
fool everyone.
Bryan Cassidy