Spergiura! with an exclamation point. More than an objective observation, it is an accusation made in a moment of anger. But who makes this accusation? And are we expected to share the underlying moral judgment? Certainty wavers. Fact: Bianca Maria is no angel, she cheats on her husband with a handsome officer and swears on the cross that she is pure as a lily. But what adjective (with a lot of exclamation points) could we use to describe the cuckolded spouse? His revenge (a recurring theme in Frusta’s films, almost to the point of obsession) is wicked and fiendish and planned down to the last detail: to wall up his wife’s lover alive. It is just as cruel seeing the poor man who opens the door believing it will lead to a way out but instead finds a brick wall that means certain death. Loosely based on Balzac’s Grande Bretèche, this movie launched Ambrosio’s ‘Serie d’Oro’.