Carroll Baker made less thrillers in the mid 70s and more sex movies. Here she plays a wife whose husband (Adolfo Celi from Thunderball) can't get it up for her so he starts having affairs with younger women (who he can get it up for), which upsets Baker so she has an affair with his son, her step son.
Baker goes topless and rolls around on bed, throwing herself into it, which is good to see for a mature aged actress (which is what she'd become). Her performance is fine; better than Celi - it's not fun to see him writhing away.
This is an odd film - you expect the set up to be for a sex comedy or thriller but it's neither; the drama is played straight and the central situation isn't really interesting enough to carry for a feature film. At the end Baker is (it's implied) shot from a snipers rifle while skiing - that feels like it should be the end of act one or two, not the movie. This badly lacks a few murders, or twists - there's some promising support characters set up (like the sexy lady who is the first to bed the step son) but they do hardly anything with it.
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