A butler, a mistress, a lawyer's wife — someone's lying, and fingerprints don't.
Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Forestier. One day, Jacques is found murdered and chief-inspector Candély is sent on the spot to investigate. Jean, the victim's butler, Lucie as well as Florence are suspected in turns but the real murderer is finally identified thanks to his fingerprints.
Acting
Paulette Dubost's mistress walks the line between victim and suspect
Direction
Anton stages the murder scene with German Expressionist shadows
Production
Interwar Paris apartments dripping with guilty privilege
Director
Karl Anton
Alice Field
Florence Forestier
Paulette Dubost
Lucie Cavelier
Jean-Max
Maître Forestier
Pierre Larquey
Richard, pastry chef
Paul Amiot
Inspector Robert
Myno Burney
Suzanne
Christiane Dor
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
Florist
Émile Genevois
Pastry boy
Robert Goupil
Mechanic
Madeleine Guitty
Madame Clapet, concierge
Rolla Norman
Jacques de Nissones
Philippe Richard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 1934, this captures the final gasp of pre-Code moral flexibility in French cinema before the Laval decrees tightened censorship.
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