Directed by:
Robert SiodmakCinematography:
Michel KelberComposer:
Michel MicheletCast:
Maurice Chevalier, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa, André Roanne, Milly Mathis, Henri Crémieux, Madeleine Geoffroy, André Numès Fils (more)Plots(1)
In Paris, women who reply to lonely hearts ads disappear without a trace. Nightclub dancer Adrienne Charpentier, a colleague of one of those who have gone missing, offers to act as a police "decoy". She meets various advertisers, including a psychotic fashion designer, who puts her life at grave risk. It turns out that with Adrienne's help, a gang trafficking in girls can be convicted. However, the murders of three women remain unsolved. Suddenly, Adrienne finds clues to the culprit in the desk of nightclub owner and female heart-throb Robert Fleury, the very man she got to know and love during her investigations ... (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Maurice Chevalier
France
Best movies:
Monkey Business (1931)
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
One Hour with You (1932)
Erich von Stroheim
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Greed (1924)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Pierre Renoir
France
Best movies:
Judgment of the God (1952)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Knock (1951)
Marie Déa
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Orpheus (1950)
The Hurried Man (1977)
André Roanne
France
Best movies:
The Sleepwalker (1951)
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Milly Mathis
France
Best movies:
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
Henri Crémieux
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale (1963)
The President (1961)
Madeleine Geoffroy
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
If I Were a Spy (1967)
André Numès Fils
France
Best movies:
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor (1951)
Order of the Daisy (1967)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Jean Témerson
France
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Diabolique (1955)
A Woman of Evil (1954)
André Brunot
France
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
The Red and the Black (1954)
Picnic on the Grass (1959)
Charles Vissières
France
Best movies:
The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
L'Idiot (1946)
The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
Jean Brochard
France
Best movies:
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)
Way of Youth (1959)
Diabolique (1955)
Max Dalban
France
Best movies:
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)
Judgment of the God (1952)
Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
Mady Berry
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Daybreak (1939)
Gates of the Night (1946)
Pierre Labry
France
Best movies:
Wooden Crosses (1932)
Confessions of a Cheat (1936)
Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942)
Julienne Paroli
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
Love Is My Profession (1958)
The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
Eugène Stuber
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1934) (series)
Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
Behold the Man (1935)
Pierre Magnier
France
Best movies:
Ruy Blas (1948)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Mr. Leguignon Lampiste (1952)
Jacques Varennes
France
Best movies:
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Diabolique (1955)
Orpheus (1950)