Summary
One winter evening, Melchior Kimmel kills his wife Hélène
on a highway on the Côte d’Azur. Although the police
suspect Kimmel of the murder, the case against him is dropped through
lack of evidence. A few months later, another woman, Clara
Saccard, is found dead at a bus station. This time, the suspect
is her husband, Walter, who, coincidently, is a regular visitor to a
bookshop owned by Kimmel. Inspector Corby is convinced that the
two killings are connected – but how...?
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© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
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Credits
- Director: Claude Autant-Lara
- Script: Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Patricia Highsmith (novel)
- Photo: Jacques Natteau
- Music: René Cloërec
- Cast: Maurice Ronet (Walter Saccard), Marina Vlady (Ellie), Robert Hossein (Corby), Laurence Badie (La serveuse), Paulette Dubost (Helen Kimmel), Gert Fröbe (Melchior Kimmel), Yvonne Furneaux (Clara Saccard), Clara Gansard (La bonne), Harry Meyen (Tony), Jacques Monod (Le commissaire)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 104 min; B&W
- Aka: Enough Rope; Im Schatten einer Nacht
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