Le Dos au mur (1958)

Le Dos au mur is a French crime film first released in 1958, directed by Edouard Molinaro.  The film is based on a novel by Frédéric Dard and stars Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Oury, Philippe Nicaud, Claire Maurier and Gérard Buhr.  It has also been released under the title: Back to the Wall.  Our overall rating for this film is: good.


One night, Jacques Decrey stops his car in front of the factory where he is the manager.  He takes a corpse out of the car and hides it in one of the walls of the factory with cement.  The dead man is Yves Normand, his wife Gloria’s lover.  Jacques recalls how it all started, three months earlier, when he came home from work to find a man kissing his wife on the doorstep.  From the number plate of the car belonging to the man, Jacques was able to infer his rival’s identity.  Jacques began to play with the situation, hiring a private detective named Mauvin to take pictures of Gloria and Yves.  Then he began to blackmail the lovers and it amused him to see Gloria asking him for money to pay off her blackmailer.  But the situation soon became more complicated than Jacques could ever have envisaged.  He did not expect that the relationship between Gloria and Yves would get out of hand and that she would kill her lover...
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