Michel Serrault as M. Raymond, le surveillant; Robert Dalban as Le garagiste; Jean Lefebvre as Le soldat; Charles Vanel as Alfred Fichet, le commissaire; Simone Signoret as Nicole Horner; Jacques Hilling as L'employ� de la morgue; Noel Roquevert as M. Herboux; Paul Meurisse as Michel Delassalle; Georges Poujouly as Soudieu, un �l�ve; Vera Clouzot as Christina Delassalle; Camille Guerini as Le photographe; Jean Brochard as Plantiveau, le concierge; Pierre Larquey as M.Drain, professeur; Georges Chamarat as Dr. Loisy; Yves-Marie Maurin as Moinet, une jeune Moynet
Rating
NR (Not Rated)
Cinematography
Armand Thirard
Language
French
Plot
In this classic of French suspense, the cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, becomes the target of a murder plot hatched by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women, brought together by their mutual hatred for the man, pull off the crime but become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.