What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)

Enrico Rossini (Fabio Testi) is a young professor at London's St. Hilda's Catholic Girls School and has the reputation for having an nontraditional rapport with his students, which knowingly or unknowingly to the rest of the school staff has lead to possibly numerous student/teacher relationships.  His latest one is with senior Elizabeth Seccles (Cristina Galbo) who believes she saw a murder on the riverbank while the two of them are making out in a boat, but Rossini thinks she was making it up to get him to stop.  

The next morning they learn the body of fellow classmate Hilda Ericson was discovered brutally murdered, stupidly Rossini returns to riverbank and goes to the scene of the crime and quickly becomes one of the police's prime suspects.  He could easily exonerate himself if he only explained how he knew where the murder took place, but doing so would reveal he had been there the day before with Elizabeth and that would create a school scandal.  But when the murders continue Rossini's secret affair must be revealed, with his job on the rocks and his freedom at stake he'll stop and nothing to uncover the true murderer.

What Have You Done to Solange? (aka Cosa avete fatto a Solange?) is another giallo that tends to rank high on fan favorite lists.  Like most of it's genre the film does an excellent job of making almost every main character appear to be capable of murder, whether it's Rossini's wife whose relationship with her husband is seeming over and is jealous of his "extra-curricular" relationships or the perverted professor who is constantly peeping into the girls locker room.  Everyone appears to be a possible suspect for the murders.

On top of that the killings themselves open up a mystery.  What's the connection between the murders, aside from the fact almost all the victims attend the same school and are classmates, and what is the reason behind the grizzly deathly final blow where the murder weapon is lodged into their nether regions?  The revelation was unexpected, as was the discovery of who the murderer ultimately is.

The two highlights of the film for me was main actor Fabio Testi who was at times is the spitting image of a young Sean Connery with a full on beard; if Connery was a couple inches taller, skinner and Italian.  And he had a spot on resemblance to Connery's brother (Neil Connery) from that cult James Bond rip-off Operation Kid Brother.  Secondly as mentioned before the film does a pretty good job of keeping up the mystery and suspense, and sticking with the classic giallo format of making everyone out to be the potential villain.  Still aside from the rather bizarre subject matter, What Have You Done to Solange? isn't overly note worthy in any particular aspect for me like Perversion Story or The Girl Who Knew Too Much, but for giallo fans it's definitely a sufficient diversion.

7/10