Henri Vidal works for a bank and has a chance to chisel some francs from rich Isa Miranda. When it turns out she knows, he turns it on its head, and eventually she proposes to him. Vidal, however, is already having an affair with her secretary, Mylène Demongeot, who is mulling a proposal from her other lover, a rich guy. Vidal and Mlle. Demongeot fantasize about killing his wife and enjoying the money, but two people like them could never get away with it. Then Vidal comes up with a perfect murder scheme.
It's a handsome little policier co-written and directed by Henri Verneuill; he was not a great talent, but he was a redoubtable craftsman, and this movie, from a novel by James Hadley Chase, has lots of twists and turns, with an ending that surprised me.... and of course, seemed inevitable afterwards.
It's a handsome little policier co-written and directed by Henri Verneuill; he was not a great talent, but he was a redoubtable craftsman, and this movie, from a novel by James Hadley Chase, has lots of twists and turns, with an ending that surprised me.... and of course, seemed inevitable afterwards.