Adapted from a Charles Williams' novel, this French comedy is the most famous film from Marcel Ophuls, a later documentary movie maker, and one of earliest Jean Paul Belmondo's success, the same year of L'HOMME DE RIO. The novelist Charles Williams was a specialist of boat or ship intrigues, schemes taking place aboard boats - nothing to do with this film - and also a specialist of complicated crook, swindle topics. It is usually not a too gloomy, dark atmosphere in those books, just a bit from time to time. This one is one of the most faithful adaptation and notorious from Chuck Williams' work. It is excellent, on the condition you can follow the details of this story and the actors play. I could not make it with the book, and hardly bear the film. But don't misunderstand me, it is quite an enjoyable French film.
Review of Banana Peel
