I agree that the topic, the basic plot, brings nothing new, a hired assassin for the mob, and also a playboy, as Michael Caine in MARSEILLE CONTRACT, who wants to gets out of the organization; the kind of scheme you have already seen a million times. But the late sixties atmosphere and those disenchanted characters, whose fates will lead them to a dead end, is a pure moment of delight for me. The ending is absolutely exquisite and could never be accepted by today audiences, such a shame. You will notice the bizarre camera angles every ten minutes, so typical of this period. Bernie Kowalski has never deceived me so far, for instance MACHO CALLAHAN, made one year later. Same mood, same melancholy, same gloomy tale. I will regret this period, from the late sixties and mid seventies, as long as I'll live. In this feature STILETTO, you may have from time to time some James Bond references, cool playboy and so on. But that doesn't interfere with the overall material.
Review of Stiletto
