''Killer's Carnival'' (, , ) is a 1966

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by

Alberto Cardone Alberto Cardone (1920–1977) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, second unit director and film editor of the 1960s. Cardone is best known for his Spaghetti Western The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produc ...

and starring

Stewart Granger Stewart Granger (born James Lablache Stewart; 6 May 1913 – 16 August 1993) was a British film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the early 1960s, rising to fame thr ...

Plot

A murderer takes refuge in a doctor's home, and the doctor tells him three stories in an attempt to convince him that crime doesn't pay.

Cast

as David Porter (Vienna segment) * Lex Barker as Glenn Cassidy (San Francisco segment) *

Pierre Brice Pierre-Louis Le Bris (6 February 1929 – 6 June 2015), known as Pierre Brice, was a French actor, best known as portraying fictional Apache chief Winnetou in German films based on Karl May novels. Life and films Brice was born in Brest, ...

as Agent Brice (Rome segment) * Karin Dor as Denise (San Francisco segment) * Pascale Petit as Lotty (Vienna segment) * Margaret Lee as Agent Linda (Rome segment) *

Walter Giller Walter Giller (23 August 1927 – 15 December 2011) was a German actor. He was very successful in the 1950s and 1960s, when he was often seen as a comedic leading man. One of his most successful and more serious roles was in ''Roses for the Pro ...

as Karl (Vienna segment) * Johanna Matz as Monique Carrar (Vienna segment) *

Klaus Kinski Klaus Kinski (, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality, he appeared in over 130 film roles in a ...

as Gomez (San Francisco segment) *

Agnès Spaak Agnès Spaak (born 29 April 1944) is a French-Belgian actress and photographer. She appeared in more than twenty films since 1962. Her father is screenwriter Charles Spaak and her sister is Catherine Spaak, an actress. Selected filmography Re ...

as Nelly Small (San Francisco segment) * Peter Vogel as Wendt, Suspected girls' killer * Richard Münch as Professor Alden (Frame story) * Carmen Cervera as Joana (San Francisco segment) (as Tita Barker) * Allen Pinson as Ray Runner (San Francisco segment) (as Alan Pinson) * Herbert Fux as Ganove (Vienna segment) * Roberto Miali as Pessana (San Francisco segment) (as Jerry Wilson) *

Carla Calò Carla Calò (21 September 1926 – 29 December 2019) was an Italian actress. Life and career Born in Palermo, Calò started her career on stage, notably starring in Luigi Squarzina's ''Il berretto a sonagli'', and also being active in dialec ...

as Female boss (Rome segment) (as Carrol Brown) * Fortunato Arena as Taxi driver (Rome segment) * Pietro Ceccarelli as Gangster #3 (Rome segment) *

Luciano Pigozzi Luciano Pigozzi, also known professionally as Alan Collins (10 January 1927 – 14 June 2008), was an Italian character actor. A long-time staple of Italian genre cinema, Pigozzi was noted for his resemblance to Peter Lorre and appeared in such ...

as Ivan (Rome segment)

References

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