Chatelard, one of Viscount de Kerlec's guests, has died in mysterious conditions. The police initiates an investigation and sends detective-inspector Pauc to de Kerlec's manor. Pauc decides to mingle with the viscount's guests , who are all likely to have committed the murder. Among them, there is Jacques Mauclerc, a naval officer, and a seedy character named Bartoli, in fact a spy in search of secret documents. Pauc will end up untangling the web during a dramatic séance.
Acting
Roland Armontel's Pauc: mustache-twirling detective energy.
Production
The manor itself—shadowy corridors, flickering candles, pure 1948 mood.
Director
Léon Mathot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paulette Dubost, who played the Viscountess, also appeared in Renoir's 'La Règle du Jeu'—she basically owned French cinema's manor house era.
Post-war France loved these closed-circle mysteries; audiences craved the illusion of controllable evil in a world that had just proven otherwise.
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