Most of the titles and directors I mentioned were completely unfamiliar to him although Argento rang a bell and I quickly came to realize that for much of his generation, Italian films were viewed as second-rate historical oddities not worth the effort to explore.
The comparative chasteness of the film is reflected in the almost chivalric rivalry between flying squad driver Marco Palma Maurizio Merli and criminal mastermind Jean-Paul Dossena Angelo Infanti.
Then there's rebellious upper class Gisella Moranzoni , who's managed to remain a medically certified virgin through both cleverness and a paranoid interpretation of the facts of life that manages to fetch her top market value on the sex market.