A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
Acting
Jany Holt's slippery charisma—fraud never looked this good.
Direction
Leboursier squeezes Parisian atmosphere from every franc.
Director
Raymond Leboursier
Jany Holt
Cécile
Colette Darfeuil
Louise Heller
Pierre Renoir
Doctor Dauvel-Juste
Jacques Baumer
Commissioner Hyacinthe
Jean-Jacques Delbo
Ludovic
Pierre Larquey
Mr. Thiais
Jean Tissier
De Thomaz
Jacqueline Delubac
Mrs. de Lanier
Charles Dechamps
Lecartier
Marguerite Deval
Mrs. Chapuis
Jean-Max
Nick Jumeau
Jean Servais
Stadler
Jean Martinelli
Moncey
Antonin Berval
Inspector Vignolles
Alexandre Rignault
Jeuniot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pierre Renoir, playing the doctor, was son of painter Pierre-Auguste—artistic dynasty meets cinematic obscurity.
This barely-seen noir sits in that weird 1950 French gap between poetic realism and the coming New Wave.
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