Twisty tale of murder and a missing million-dollar insurance payment, originally titled La coda dello scorpione, opens with a businessman dying in an airplane explosion and his unfaithful widow collecting his life insurance. As the circumstances of the death were suspicious, an investigator (George Hilton) begins to check on things, and the dead man’s former lover makes her demands known, too. Soon there is a murder and the money disappears. I was a little surprised by the identity of the guilty party, and though aspects of the ending were rather weak, I thought it worked overall.

  Recommended. Otto finds this one pleasing enough to relax.

Movie 375 for 2021.