For Naked Violence, directed by Fernando di Leo in 1969, credit must be given to him for having started off his great season of noir films. This film also sees the beginning of what the director described as a “communion of souls” with the writer Giorgio Scerbanenco, whose literary work,

The Lawyer is a bag man for a gangster who has to take Milena, his lover, for an abortion in a seaside town. Once there he meets a whizkid gangster, Molecola, with great ideas for the future of the town and the Lawyer agrees to work for him.