Death Walks on High Heels

Luciano Ercoli's giallo Death Walks on High Heels (1971) is ready to watch online on iFILM. When notorious jewel thief Rochard turns up dead on a train, the police lean on his daughter Nicole — a Parisian nightclub dancer — over a fortune in missing diamonds.

Nicole swears she knew nothing about her father's dealings. Then a masked man begins stalking her, demanding she reveal where the stones are hidden. Her jealous lover Michel becomes the obvious suspect. Fleeing with a new acquaintance, Dr. Robert Matthews, she escapes to England — but the killer trails her there, and the story takes a sharp turn just when you stop expecting one.

This was the first half of Ercoli's loose 'Death Walks' pairing, ahead of Death Walks at Midnight. Nieves Navarro, a defining face of Spanish-Italian thrillers, leads the cast. A mid-film twist and an abrupt change of country set it apart from by-the-numbers giallo. Stream Death Walks on High Heels (1971) online on iFILM.