The Cat o’ Nine Tails (1971)
Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden pops up in this giallo as a blind man who happens to be a former investigative ace; he teams up with a reporter (James Franciscus) who’s poking into a mysterious break-in (and subsequent probable murder) connected to a secretive medical facility. The BDSM connotations of the title suit the giallo genre perfectly, even if The Cat o’ Nine Tails is more of a cat-and-mouse tale, albeit one stuffed with incriminating photographs, incriminating notes hidden on corpses, poisoned glasses of milk, and the awesome spectacle of Malden wielding a sword cane.
