A dead banker, a framed cashier, and 80 minutes of French moral panic.
After a banker is driven to suicide by his wife's reckless spending, an innocent cashier is wrongly implicated in a crime.
Acting
Marcel Dalio's slimy Dinari steals every scene he's in.
Direction
De Canonge crams a courtroom epic into 80 tight minutes.
Writing
The wife's spending spree as inciting incident is brutal social commentary.
Director
Maurice de Canonge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in post-war France, the film channels widespread anxiety about financial instability and collapsing social hierarchies.
Michèle Alfa was a major star of 1930s French cinema; by 1948 she was taking roles in poverty row quickies like this.
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