Murderers and Thieves (1956)

★ 5.8 1h 25m IMDb
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A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.

Murderers and Thieves

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Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault as Albert Lecagneux, le cambrioleur Died 2007 · Brunoy, Essonne, France Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films. His first professional job was in a touring production in...
Jean Poiret
Jean Poiret as Philippe d'Artois, le riche oisif Died 1992 · Paris, France Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play La Cage Aux Folles. Jean Poiret...
Magali Noël
Magali Noël as Madeleine Ferrand, la maîtresse de Philippe Died 2015 · Izmir, Turkey Magali Noël (born Magali Noëlle Guiffray; June 27, 1932) is a Turkish-French actress and singer. Originally from Izmir, she emigrated from Turkey to France in 1951, and her acting career began soon th...
Darry Cowl
Darry Cowl as Jules Henri Lardenois, le témoin égaré Died 2006 · Vittel, Vosges, France Darry Cowl (born André Darricau; 27 August 1925 – 14 February 2006) was a French actor and musician. He won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2004 for his role as a concierge in Pas...
Clément Duhour
Clément Duhour as Jean "Walter" Ferrand, le mari de Madeleine Died 1983 · Saint-Jean d’Anglet, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Lucien Baroux
Lucien Baroux as le médecin-chef de la clinique Died 1968 · Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France Lucien Baroux (born Marcel Lucien Barou) (Toulouse, 21 September 1888 – Hossegor, 21 May 1968) was a French actor. He began his career working in the theatre, moving on to a long career in films from...

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Aqueronte72 Apr 02, 2022
Guitry caustically lavishes occasional or permanent nonsense like few others? of life and the mediocre role of justice, but above all, the shameless stereotypes that prevent seeing kindness and honesty in a thief for robbing a house and the opposite of an idle millionaire. Rarely can we have a cocnag with the thief who will kill us! And there are even fewer times that we are the ones who have proposed it to him 5 minutes before committing suicide and, therefore, as unheard of as it may sound, let us be accomplices of our own perfect murder counting on the spontaneity of luck and the impudence of our indifference, since we do not even know the fortuitous executioner (and relief) recently arrived for our plans. The unlikely encounter allows for two things, one, for the character of Philippe, the meticulous, if slightly cynical, review of how his infamous resume of lies made him go beyond comedy to the border of farce in his real life; two, to the viewer, to discover the twisted but strangely honest sense of why Philippe d'Artois the suicide finds it delicious that fate takes the initiative in key moments of his life, from a long time ago and, paradoxically when, as he tells the thief, He began his crisis of conscience on that Deauville beach rescuing the beautiful Madeleine, not to mention his subsequent frantic search -although not in an obvious way- through all the 5, 4 and 3 star hotels until he reunited with Jean, his friend from the childhood; Metacognitive farce, a thief who avoids complacency in his crime, a suicide who haggles over the 400,000 that he will pay him for killing him and accepts 200,000 francs and not 300,000 in cash because it is too dangerous to have so much cash at home. Perfectly well-orchestrated entanglement by Guitry because while the two lovers, Madeleine and Philippe, have fun inventing new scenarios to continue cheating on the husband, Jean (coffees, changes of taxis and train cars for a couple of hours) all the fuss will culminate, Philippe continues telling the thief who will kill him, when they are discovered that night in which Jean and Madeleine's residence on the 16th District was robbed. Philippe, already discovered by the cuckolded Jean and fleeing through the curtains, shoots Jean dead and cunningly leaves the pistol to the unknown thief who had just begun to ransack the home in another part of the enormous residence. Thanks to his stormy but ridiculous escape he crashes into a tree and in the hospital he meets Princess Gorochenko, a kleptomaniac who takes the salt shaker and cutlery, the old couple who mutually believe that the other is the one who is crazy, and the chaplain who makes funny faces and grimaces at Philippe from the opposite table and thinks Philippe is crazy. Who will be that thief if not Albert Le Cagneux, who after having paid 10 years for something he did not commit, murder, will be innocent again?

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