Dead Pigeon On Beethoven Street (1972)

DEAD PIGEON ON BEETHOVEN STREET 
    D: Samuel Fuller                      (1972)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    Glenn Corbett, Christa Lang, Stéphane Audran,
    Anton Diffring, Eric P. Caspar, Sieghardt Rupp
The first thing about this movie, it's got a great title. The second thing, it's a Sam Fuller movie, so you can take the title literally. It's vintage Fuller, a demented pulp thriller about an American private eye in Germany trying to crack a photo blackmail ring. It plays like a Raymond Chandler story shot in a carnival fun house, but Philip Marlowe never had to dodge bullets in a maternity ward while taking on a gangster named Charlie Umlaut.