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A Balasaur Score of 56 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.7/10.
Synopsis
Paul, a former womanizer, marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
Ratings
IMDb5.7/10
30 audience votes
Key crew
- Claude ChabrolDirector
- Paul GégauffScreenplay
- Pierre JansenOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jean-Paul BelmondoLe docteur Paul Simay
- Mia FarrowChristine Dupont
- Laura AntonelliMartine Dupont
- Marlène AppeltL'Infirmière Carole
- Dominique ZardiL'évêque
- Daniel LecourtoisLe professeur Dupont
- Daniel IvernelLe docteur Berthier
- Patrick PréjeanArthur Ringard
- Michel PeyrelonJoseph Melville
- Henri Attal'La sourde'
- Maja WodeckaCast
- Louis DurantonCast
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Themes
based on novel or booknurseparaplegicmarriagedark comedysatirebordeaux, francemachismomarriage of convenienceprejudiceclinicdoctor