A woman's father, a scientist, receives repeated death threats and eventually ends up dead. Receiving no help from the police, the woman begins to realize that she is next.
Acting
Renée Cosima sells mounting dread without hysterics.
Direction
Jean Maley stretches 86 minutes like taffy, tense and mean.
Director
Jean Maley
Raymond Souplex
Commissioner Serval
Gilbert Gil
Paul Roubais
Renée Cosima
Catherine Muller
François Deguelt
Inspector François Garnier
Pierre Doris
Inspector Bourdier
Daniel Emilfork
Leader of the undertaker gang
Jean Tissier
Gardener
Jean Daurand
Serval's deputy
Guy Piérauld
Inspector Martin
Lucien Raimbourg
Monsieur Muller
François Dyrek
Member of the undertaker gang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Daniel Emilfork later played the sinister Krank in City of Children — his face was born for unease.
Made during France's 'série noire' boom, when American pulp got a pessimistic Parisian makeover.
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