The Hassled Hooker
The Hassled Hooker (Italian: Il vero e il falso, also known as The True and the False) is a 1972  Italian crime-drama film co-written and directed by Eriprando Visconti.

Plot
In Latina, 100 kilometers from Rome, Luisa Santini is said to have murdered her husband's lover, Norma Zeitzler. The defendant asserts her innocence, but the evidence speaks against her. Prosecutor Turrisi sees the chance of getting a promotion to Rome through this case and is making sure that the process is pushed ahead in great haste. Only the young and inexperienced defense lawyer Marco Manin doubts Santini's guilt. Turrisi eventually wins the guilty verdict and is promoted. Luisa Santini is sentenced to ten years in prison for manslaughter. Marco Manin then changes from criminal to civil law out of disappointment with the judiciary.
Luisa Santini will have three years off her sentence for good conduct, so that she will be released after seven years. Manin, who apparently also has a romantic interest in Santini, picks her up from prison and helps her with the first steps in freedom. He also determines the current address of her husband, who meanwhile lives with a new lover in Rome. When Santini visits her husband, she sees that the supposed new lover is Norma Zeitzler, for whose murder she was convicted. In a blind rage, she kills the woman and subsequently insists that she can no longer be prosecuted because she has already served the sentence. Nevertheless, she will be tried again.
Lawyer Manin then decides to defend Luisa Santini and also to reopen the old proceedings, Turrisi acts again as public prosecutor.

Cast
Terence Hill as Marco Manin
Paola Pitagora as Luisa Santini
Martin Balsam as Lawyer Turrisi
Adalberto Maria Merli as Claudio Santini
Shirley Corrigan as Norma Zeitzler
Maria Teresa Albani as Adalgisa Alberti
Vittorio Sanipoli as General Attorney
Esmeralda Ruspoli as Giulia Turrisi
Piero Gerlini as President of Trial
Ettore Geri as De Vecchi
Enzo Robutti as Manca
Bianca Doria as Witness
Pietro Tordi as Carabinieri Officier
Luigi Montini as Police Superintendent
Calisto Calisti as Petrol Pump Attendant

See also
List of Italian films of 1972

References
External links
The Hassled Hooker at IMDb