Paul loves Margaret but she has her eyes on Graziano, a night-club owner. Desperate to prove himself to Margaret, Paul begins planning an elaborate robbery. With the assistance of a corrupt prison officer he gets himself arrested, knowing he can come and go from the jail as he pleases, thus providing him with the perfect alibi. The robbery is a success but the prison guard changes his mind and decides he now wants all of the haul for himself, so he shoots Paul, fatally wounding him but, just before he dies, Paul fires one last round and kills the prison guard.
Newsreel making-of, courtesy of Archivio Luce featuring a nightclub scene from the film – possibly the only footage that has survived.
Due Fogli poster
A lost thriller from director Roberto Bianchi Montero, aside from a censor report and various promotional materials, there’s little I can add here apart from the above synopsis – it appears to have disappeared after its initial theatrical run in 1961. Lead actor Alberto Lupo also starred in another very effective thriller released the same year; A Passport For a Corpse. The title theme Un Alibi Per Morire was performed by 60s pop group The Flippers and released as the b-side of ‘Happy Cha Cha‘ (7″ single)
Update September 2026
Thanks to a detailed pdf linked below in the comments (many thanks whysleep13) – we now know the film did get a limited release but was then pulled from circulation. It also had a tough time getting past the state censors with what look like at least two or three submissions. It did get approved for release – but the author of the novel it was based on sued the production not long after. I need to look into in more detail. You can download the pdf down below in the comments. In the meantime, here are three pages machine translated which are most pertinent (I’ll add others soon)
One Man and His Droid 
Some details about the lawsuit that got the film pulled from circulation:
https://ludwig.lim.di.unimi.it/uploads/F035074_2ed0e2fcec.pdf
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Thanks! I’ll update the entry accordingly. Seems it was released then ordered taken out of circulation not long after – I ‘think’ the order comes from the author of the book the film was based on (and he clearly disapproved)
Amusingly, there are also comments stating that while the film was effectively banned (for 90 days) it was still in circulation and playing in theatres, regardless of the temporary seizure order.
I guess this clears up part of the mystery – now all we need to know is if the film exists in an archive somewhere? Or is it genuinely lost forever?
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