Basta Guadarla isn’t a movie that fits our expanded definition of pulp, but its promo poster is so nice we decided to share it anyway. The scan of this we found is more than two-thousand pixels wide, and we’re considering sticking it in a frame. We deduced that it was painted by Giuliano Nistri because he painted the second poster, which you see below, and signed it, which leads us to believe both are his work. The movie is about a peasant girl played by Maria Grazia Buccella who joins a traveling musical revue called Silver Boy. Such revues were a thing in Italy and were known as avanspettacoli.
As we’ve mentioned before, Italian comedies are terrifyingly bad, residing somewhere between low budget variety television and Vaudeville. Basta Guadarla is the same, but actually has some charms. The most important of those is humor that works intermittently, but it also benefits from the beautiful Buccella, who at the end wears an outfit similar to the one on the poster, except there’s less of it. Instead of bikini bottoms it’s more of a paste-on dealie with no sides, a very sexy get-up. Still, the movie isn’t good enough to be recommendable. It premiered today in 1970.
Signora Wardh is a tale of obssession and infidelity wrapped in a murder mystery. Mrs. Wardh does indeed have a strange vice, but that’s just window dressing. It’s her that’s being hunted throughout the movie—either by a serial killer, a demented ex-lover, or both. Or neither. They say that the only way to keep a secret is if no more than two people know it and one of them is dead. But the only way to commit murder is if the killer has an iron clad alibi, and for that he often needs help. Rule one conflicts with rule two, and that’s the fun of 
