

A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
Acting
Lollobrigida weaponizes charm like a loaded gun.
Direction
Dassin builds tension through sweaty bodies and power stares.
Cinematography
Sun-bleached Mediterranean colors that feel vaguely threatening.

Director
Jules Dassin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as 'Room at the Top,' this was part of a wave of European cinema openly interrogating postwar class and sexual politics.
Dassin had been blacklisted in Hollywood for a decade; this was his defiant return to form, shot in Greece with his future wife Melina Mercouri in a supporting role.
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