According to IMDb trivia, in 1963 Stanley Kubrick listed this film as one of the ten best of all time (until then); you are not likely to agree. The fact that it was Maurice Cazeneuve's ONLY feature / non-TV film ever may be more telling. The first half is slow and uneventful, but the film picks up energy with the arrival of the polite-yet-slimy blackmailer played by Hubert Noël: even though he is a face unknown to me, whereas the three leads are famous French film stars, he gives the best performance here. There is also a fairly tense climactic sequence. Overall, an average example of its genre. **1/2 out of 4.
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