The coming of the Nouvelle Vague and the decline of the "romantic young male/female lead" lead some actors to live their native France for the broader horizons (at the time) of Italy;some others choose Spain,such as Philippe Lemaire and Claudine Dupuis ,who were no longer "romantic young leads " anyway.She plays the part of a falsely accused of theft -and later of murder-woman and he is her attentive escort ,the attorney ,supposedly smarter than his cousin/detective (but the ending shows it isn't so).The murder mystery is rather mediocre ,the average viewer being able to discover the guilty ones after thirty minutes.Actually ,as it takes place around a music hall,it recalls Mitchell Leisen's works of the thirties :"murder at the vanities" ," four hours to kill",complete with "real" action on stage ....
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