A small-time con man on the run from the gangster-husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women, where he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women.
Cinematography
The mansion breathes—shadows eat Delon's beauty alive.
Acting
Fonda's Melinda: chaotic blonde energy before it had a name.
Director
René Clément
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Clément made this after 'Purple Noon' turned Delon into an international object of desire—here he weaponizes that beauty, then breaks it.
Fonda was fresh off Broadway and fighting her 'Henry's daughter' shadow; her Melinda is all calculated chaos, reportedly improvised half her flirtations.
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