I presume because this is a foreign film it didn't get noticed as much as it deserved. It is a film of "D'entre les Morts" by Boileau and Narcejac, and was also filmed in 1958 by Alfred Hitchcock as "Vertigo" starring James Stewart and Kim Novak.
A down-on-his-luck musician thinks he's impersonating a missing millionaire as part of an inheritance scheme but it's only a smokescreen for a Nazi war criminal trying to escape the Mossad... Although both films use French crime novels from the pulp team of Boileau-Narcejac as source, Sergio Gobbi's MISDEAL (aka EVIL WOMAN) bears no resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO as far as plot goes and there's no reel comparison, artistically, either.
Sergio Gobbi ("Love Me, Strangely") also directed a re-filming of the same novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac that Hitchcock filmed as "Vertigo" in 1959. Gobbi's film, "Maldonne" (or its current U.
The story is interesting enough, there is a visual style or taste and the soundtrack is great... but at some point, the logical flaw is too obvious, regarding the assumption formulated by the "stalking" group about the main character: considering that the events actually take place in late sixties and that they don't talk about the possibility of an aesthetic-surgical operation , the man is young for god-sake and he can't be your guy!...
