Top billed cast

1. 

   Véra Clouzot

   Christina Delassalle

2. 

   Simone Signoret

   Nicole Horner

3. 

   Paul Meurisse

   Michel Delassalle

4. 

   Charles Vanel

   Police Inspector Alfred Fichet

5. 

   Jean Brochard

   Plantiveau

6. 

   Pierre Larquey

   Mr. Drain

7. 

   Michel Serrault

   Mr. Raymond

8. 

   Yves-Marie Maurin

   Moinet

9. 

   Georges Poujouly

   Soudieu

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2017-02-08

The keys in the pool, the husband in the morgue! You dream too much about water in this house!

Headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delaselle (Paul Meurisse) is a brooding bully of a man, one day his wife and mistress decide enough is enough and plot to kill him, trouble is that once they murder him, his body disappears and reported sightings of him are adding to the ladies' paranoia.

Thus is the setting for director Henri-Georges Clouzot's brilliant suspenser. The pace is stiflingly perfect, he gently racks up the tension, neatly toying with audience expectation, the sense of dread t...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• wife
• female lover
• morgue
• swimming pool
• teacher
• plan gone wrong
• mistress
• black and white
• french noir
• boys' boarding school
• headmaster
• philanderer
• mischievous children
• missing body
• abusive husband
• abused wife
• wicker trunk
• frightened woman