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An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.
Giuseppe Addobbati
- Brent
- (as John Douglas)
Félix Dafauce
- Royal Insurance Official
- (as Felix de Fauce)
Jesús Puente
- Sergeant Rodriguez
- (as Jesus Puente)
Jorge Rigaud
- Arthur Mitchell
- (as George Rigaud)
Jean Sobieski
- Larry
- (as Jean Sobiesky)
Janet Agren
- Girl looking for Neurosedyl
- (uncredited)
Adolfo Celi
- Mr. Bernard
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Geoffrey Copleston
- District Attorney
- (uncredited)
Lucio Fulci
- Graphologist
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLucio Fulci's intended title for the film was "Perversion Story". While the film was released under that title in France, producer Edmondo Amati elected to use the title for the Italian release of a Spanish film he co-produced, Murder by Music (1969), and retitle this film "Una sull'altra" (which had previously been used in press notices prior to the start of shooting), the translation of which, "One on Top of the Other", was used for its theatrical and VHS release in English-speaking countries. The "Perversion Story" title was later used for its DVD and Blu-ray releases.
- GoofsSan Luis Obispo is due south of San Francisco, but to get there from San Francisco George is seen driving over and past landmarks taking him east of his destination such as the San Mateo Bridge or north of his starting point such as the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Quotes
Monica Weston: [to George after having sex] You're quite, lover. You don't even say a word... well, I suppose it's better than the ones who talk all the time.
- Crazy creditsMarisa Mell and John Ireland, who are second- and fifth-billed on Italian prints, are top- and fourth-billed on English prints.
- Alternate versionsThe Severin DVD uses a French version of the film and runs about 97 minutes. The UK videotape version is about 11 minutes longer, at 108 minutes.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Green Fog (2017)
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Fantastic pre-giallo from The godfather of gore
Una sull'altra, which is more likely better known as One on the top the other is hard movie to categorize to a single genre. It has as much erotic and exploitative elements as it has elements from pre-giallos like Mario Bava's excellent Blood and black lace and his older work, Girl who knew too much. It isn't as psychedelic as Fulci's other giallos like Lizard in a woman's skin or as tense as his Don't torture a duckling or Sette notes in nero. Una sull'altra doesn't contain any gore or splatter either. Still, however, I found it very entertaining and I would even say it's one of the best non-gore movies from Fulci I've seen (and trust me on this one, I've seen lots of them too).
Movie follows a basic giallo structure, even though it was made in the same year with "the first actual giallo", Dario Argento's fabulous L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo, and in the way that it doesn't rip-off that movie as many other giallos does. That's why I cannot really say honestly that I found this one to be real giallo, but more like pre-giallo.
What comes to the plot of the movie, it's not really as simple as it might seem, but has many twists and misleads when police are trying to find out how the things really are (who is lying, who is telling the truth). Really nice twists and turns, I couldn't tell at the whole time how did what (and what comes to that matter, even who was who). Ending was really nicely surprising too, I really enjoyed it.
So, if you are bored with Fulci's not as good non-gore movies or if you just want a quick peak to the fantastic world of pre-giallos, One on top of other is highly recommended. At the scale of 1 to 10, I would give it 9, this movie really deserves it.
Movie follows a basic giallo structure, even though it was made in the same year with "the first actual giallo", Dario Argento's fabulous L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo, and in the way that it doesn't rip-off that movie as many other giallos does. That's why I cannot really say honestly that I found this one to be real giallo, but more like pre-giallo.
What comes to the plot of the movie, it's not really as simple as it might seem, but has many twists and misleads when police are trying to find out how the things really are (who is lying, who is telling the truth). Really nice twists and turns, I couldn't tell at the whole time how did what (and what comes to that matter, even who was who). Ending was really nicely surprising too, I really enjoyed it.
So, if you are bored with Fulci's not as good non-gore movies or if you just want a quick peak to the fantastic world of pre-giallos, One on top of other is highly recommended. At the scale of 1 to 10, I would give it 9, this movie really deserves it.
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- Perversion Story
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- ITL 445,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was One on Top of the Other (1969) officially released in India in English?
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