The read
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 91% of the 260 1950s comedy movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 25m.
Synopsis
Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
82 audience votes
Key crew
- Sacha GuitryDirector
- Sacha GuitryWriter
- LouiguyOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Michel SimonPaul Louis Victor Braconnier
- Jean DebucourtMaître Aubanel
- Jacques VarennesLe procureur
- Germaine ReuverBlandine Braconnier
- Marcelle ArnoldGermaine Chevillard
- Georges BeverMr Gaillard
- Nicolas AmatoVictor Boitevin
- Jeanne Fusier-GirMme Tyberghen
- Pauline CartonMme Michaud
- Albert DuvaleixL'abbé Méthivier
- Louis de FunèsAndré
- Henry LaverneLe président
