Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jean-Claude Brialy | ... | Paul Kastner | |
Stéphane Audran | ... | Marie Kastner / Anne Andrieux | |
Robert Hossein | ... | Jean Carouse | |
Michel Serrault | ... | Le commissaire Plouvier / Superintendant | |
Catherine Spaak | ... | Françoise Noblet | |
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Michel Creton | ... | Moureux le pharmacien |
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Madeleine Damien | ... | Une vieille dcommére |
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Jeanne Pérez | ... | Une vieille commére |
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Isabelle Del Rio | ... | (as Isabel Del Rio) |
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Antonia Lotito | ||
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Philippe Lejour | ... | L'employé de l'agence de voyages |
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José Luccioni | ... | le livreur de Carouse |
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Paul Bisciglia | ... | L'employé de Kastner |
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Marius Laurey | ... | Le dépanneur |
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Pippo Merisi |
Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
The turn of the decade (sixties/seventies) was Chabrol 's heyday.To reproduce his (commercial and critical) success,the same ingredients were chosen(a murder mystery,a bourgeois house,Stephane Audran,Chabrol's then wife playing parts of twin sisters -after Olivia de Havilland,why not her?-,Chabrol in the flesh in a cameo -he's the Pullman's inspector-)to give the flick the aura of .... an ersatz Chabrol movie.There are ,at a pinch ,two good suspenseful scenes; the wheelchair on the road,pursued by a car,and the hanged man in the graveyard which pack a real wallop.
Etienne Périer was to continue in the ersatz Chabrol vein with "la main à couper",but he was luckier with his "un si joli village" (1978) which was closer to Cayatte/Boisset social criticism.