Alina

This is great subject matter for a film.

There are a troop of 4 smugglers who carry the cocaine over the border from Italy to France via the Alps. They need to navigate the route with local knowledge and make sure that they outwit the border police in order to deliver the stash to the man who runs a gambling house - Juan de Landa (Lucien). De Landa has a wife, Doris Dowling (Maria), who sings at his club but is carrying on with de Landa's manager Amedeo Nazzari (Giovanni) behind de Landa's back. Nazzari finds out about the drug runnings and falls in love with one of the smugglers - Gina Lollobrigida (Alina). Meanwhile, Dowling gets jealous...

The film has great scenery - the Alps - and a different setting for the topic of drug smuggling. Unfortunately, not enough happens in terms of action, but the film is still worth the time.

I would like to declare my interest in the different ways that cocaine can be smuggled across borders and this film sets it out straight, ie, the people involved are not bad people. They just need to make a living. Well, the baddie smuggler Otello Toso (Marco) is bad. However, he is not bad because of the drug-carrying that he does, but more due to his self-entitlement to control women, in this case Gina. You hear the 'rape music' kicking in for one particular scene. Thankfully, he doesn't come out on top during this episode. Toso by name and 'tosser' by nature.

Did film studios have music libraries with various headings for certain situations, eg, "rape music"? I bet they did.

As for cocaine smuggling, more use needs to be made of these mountainous borders for this beneficial service. Ooops .... how silly of me ..... that is exactly what is happening all over the world - ha ha.