Les Canailles (1960)
Directed by Maurice Labro

Film Synopsis

Ed Dawson manages a press agency in Rome and it is in this capacity that he must receive Hélène Chalmers, the daughter of his American employer.  A few days later, the young woman mysteriously disappears and Dawson is instructed by Chlamers to find her as quickly as possible.   Dawson is relieved when Hélène calls him and arranges for him to meet her at an isolated house she has decided to rent.  That evening, Dawson and Hélène make love and the press agent realises that Hélène must have come to Rome for some purpose that is unknown to her father.  Before he can find out more Dawson is shocked to learn that the young woman has gone missing a second time.  It is not long before he finds her, lying dead at the foot of a nearby cliff.  With the police on his tail, Dawson sets out to find the murderer...