DISCOTHEQUE SCENE FROM "DEATH WALKS AT MIDNIGHT" (1972)

#11: THERE IS SELDOM ANYTHING GREAT ABOUT YOUR NATURAL HAIR COLOR.

From Luciano Ercoli's 1972 giallo thriller "Death Walks at Midnight" ( La morte accarezza a mezzanotte). Actress Nieves Navarro (then working under the name Susan Scott) plays beautiful model Valentina, who takes some experimental psychedelics and psychically witnesses a brutal murder. In this scene she's laying low from the killer in a swingin' discotheque. And really, I ask you, what better way is there than in a highly, highly conspicuous silver wig?  Well, Valentina is smart, 'cause with all these disco hippies and the groovy organ music, the only thing gettin' killed in here is conventionality.


  

PARTY SCENE FROM "DEATH WALKS AT MIDNIGHT" (1972)

#10: UPHOLSTER YOUR PAD WITH LOUNGING, SMOKING DISCO HIPPIES.

OK, so we're going to see a lot of disco hippies on this blog. A lot of them. Hash-smoking, face-painting, fabulous disco hippies. The kind of disco hippies that come with only two functions: discotheque dancing and languid lounging. The latter is well featured in this scene from Luciano Ercoli's giallo thriller "Death Walks at Midnight" ( La morte accarezza a mezzanotte) of 1972. Here, actress Susan Scott (nee Nieves Navarro) comes back to her queeny friend's pad for a chic lounging party after the discotheque.  You can't even see the furniture for all the lounging hippies and night people. Special details: daisy-age face paint, great use of grouped candles, a quick hint of the giallo-ubiquitous J&B bottle.

  

STRIPTEASE SCENE FROM "DEATH WALKS ON HIGH HEELS" (1971)

#9: BLACKFACE IS A RISKY PROPOSITION AT BEST.

From Luciano Ercoli's 1971 giallo thriller "Death Walks on High Heels" (or, La morte cammina con i tacchi alti). In this mostly hilarious scene, actress Nieves Navarro, then working under the name Susan Scott, either tantalizes - or possibly offends - her audience with a glamorous striptease. The tools of her trade: feathers, diamonds, tits, skin bronzer, and an afro wig. Yeah, this lady ain't black. But she is living in 1971. And clearly making the most of what she's got to work with. And then some...

The sexy-breezy song is "Night Club Girl" by Italian cinematic composer Stelvio Cipriani, from the La morte cammina con i tacchi alti soundtrack, available on iTunes and the much cheaper eMusic.com.