Country of Origin: Italy
Year of Production: 1971
Running Times: 78 mins (USA - as Leather and Whips)     85 mins
Format: Eastmancolor     Cromoscope     35mm
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: West Film (Rome)
Executive Producer: Roberto Palaggi
Producer: Italo Zingarelli

SCRIPT
Script: Silvio Amadio

DIRECTION
Director: Silvio Amadio

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Aldo Giordani

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Antonio Siciliano

MUSIC
Music: Teo Usuelli

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Enzo Bulgarelli

CAST
Farley Granger (Richard Stuart)
Barbara Bouchet (Greta Franklin)
Rosalba Neri (Eleonora Stuart)
Umberto Raho (Giovanni, the butler)
Patrizia Viotti (Sally Reece)
Dino Mele (Sandro)
Petar Martonovic (Rocco)
Nino Segurini (Commissioner Antonelli)

Greta Franklin arrives at the mansion home (on a island near Venice) of writer Richard Stuart to take up position as his new secretary. But she's actually there to look for her missing sister Sally who also worked for Stuart. She's soon being menaced by a strange figure, seduced by Stuart's wife and learning that there's a lot more to Stuart than meets the eye...

UK
Theatrical Distributors: English Film Company

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Group One
Video Distributor: European Trash Cinema; Continental; Catalina Home Video; Something Weird Video; Trash Palace
DVD Distributor: Eurovista Digital Entertainment (EDE004)

UK
Rating: X

USA
Rating: R; unrated

1971
November
13: Italy - passed by the ratings board

1972
March
21: Italy - theatrical release

He kidnapped beautiful women, forcing them to do what he wanted...AND HE WANTED EVERYTHING!

An explosion of sexual frenzy!

Amuck - US title
Hot Bed of Sex - UK title
Leather and Whips - US title
Maniac Mansion - US title
Die Nacht der Rollended Koepfe - German title
Il passo dell'assassino - working title
Play Hotel - German title
Repetition d'un crime - French title
Replica di un delitto - Italian title

MAGAZINES

Bianco e Nero vol.35 no.3/4 (March/ April 1974) p.31 (Italy)
review

CinemaTV Today no.10008 (25 November 1972) p.21 (UK)
review (by Marjorie Bilbow)

Delirium no.1 (UK)
credits, review

European Trash Cinema vol.2 no.6 pp.18-19 (USA)
review

Fangoria no.204 (July 1002) p.60 (USA)
DVD review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.40 no.469 (February 1973) p.23 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review (by David McGillivray)

Video Watchdog no.36 pp.9-10 (USA)
review

BOOKS

Blood and Black Lace by Adrian Luther-Smith p.1 (Liskeard: Stray Cat Publishing Ltd (1999)  ISBN: 0-9533261-1-X)
credits, review

Horror and Science Fiction Films Volume II p.445
credits

KEYWORDS

islands; secretaries; lesbianism; porn films; writers; sex; fishermen; butlers; blackmail; giallo; quicksand; americans abroad; waterfalls; strangulation; flashbacks; boats; parties; drugs; swamps; psychics; mediums; esp; hunting humans; quicksand; giallo; venice