Les innocents aux mains sales (1974)
(Innocents with Dirty Hands)
Country: FR/IT/GER
Technical: col 125m
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, Jean Rochefort
Synopsis:
A wife plots with her lover to murder her drunkard of a husband, but the body disappears.
Review:
One is tempted to view this unlikely Steiger role as an attempt by the co-star of On the Waterfront to get even with Brando over Last Tango in Paris, but once again he comes a poor second, although this Schneider certainly holds up her end, no pun intended. It's very Hitchcockian, with a couple of police inspectors wandering around trying to figure out what's going on, and usually having a meal while they're at it (Frenzy). The plot itself is full of typical reversals and resurrected corpses (Vertigo, Psycho); all predictable enough from a director who enjoys adapting thriller novels 'à sa façon'.
(Innocents with Dirty Hands)
Country: FR/IT/GER
Technical: col 125m
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, Jean Rochefort
Synopsis:
A wife plots with her lover to murder her drunkard of a husband, but the body disappears.
Review:
One is tempted to view this unlikely Steiger role as an attempt by the co-star of On the Waterfront to get even with Brando over Last Tango in Paris, but once again he comes a poor second, although this Schneider certainly holds up her end, no pun intended. It's very Hitchcockian, with a couple of police inspectors wandering around trying to figure out what's going on, and usually having a meal while they're at it (Frenzy). The plot itself is full of typical reversals and resurrected corpses (Vertigo, Psycho); all predictable enough from a director who enjoys adapting thriller novels 'à sa façon'.
(Innocents with Dirty Hands)
Country: FR/IT/GER
Technical: col 125m
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, Jean Rochefort
Synopsis:
A wife plots with her lover to murder her drunkard of a husband, but the body disappears.
Review:
One is tempted to view this unlikely Steiger role as an attempt by the co-star of On the Waterfront to get even with Brando over Last Tango in Paris, but once again he comes a poor second, although this Schneider certainly holds up her end, no pun intended. It's very Hitchcockian, with a couple of police inspectors wandering around trying to figure out what's going on, and usually having a meal while they're at it (Frenzy). The plot itself is full of typical reversals and resurrected corpses (Vertigo, Psycho); all predictable enough from a director who enjoys adapting thriller novels 'à sa façon'.