A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him.
Acting
Jean Richard's slow-burn panic as the commissioner who can't arrest anyone.
Writing
Poison as punchline — the script treats attempted murder like household inconvenience.
Director
Claude Boissol
Jean Richard
Commissioner Etienne Ledru
Nicole Courcel
Anne-Marie Ledrut
Sophie Daumier
Juliette Ledrut
Junie Astor
Mrs. Terrasse
René Clermont
Director of the lab
Bernard Dhéran
Dr. Chauvin
Jean Galland
Mr. Duquesne
Jacques Hilling
Taxi driver
François Patrice
Inspector Martin
Jacques Perrin
Philippe Ledrut
Annick Tanguy
Janine, maid
Yves Arcanel
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Duquenne's son
Michel Nastorg
Medical examiner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was part of a brief French fad for 'comédie policière' — crime played for bourgeois anxiety laughs.
Director Claude Boissol made six films in 1957 alone; this was considered his 'prestige' project. The speed shows.
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