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Against the wishes of her Aunt Valeria, attractive Milena travels to Milan in order to secretly marry Marco Giraldi. Three years later, Milena returns to her hometown Fermo, where her husband's shoe business is in financial difficulties. Shortly afterwards, she is abducted, a valuable painting is stolen and Aunt Valeriais murdered. Two young villains, who carried out the dirty work, are then killed...
Cast
Sylva Koscina, Pier Paolo Capponi, Luigi Pistilli, Krista Nell, Carla Mancini, Herb Andress, Wilma Casagrande, Emilio Bonucci, Euro Teodori, Agostino De Simone, Pietro Plinio Quinzi, Alfredo Cecconi
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