Au diable la vertu
1953 Comedy
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Summary
When his wife discovers that he has spent the night away from home, Pierre has to act
fast to prevent her finding out about his mistress. He hires a complete stranger
to provide him with the perfect alibi, but the stranger soon turns out to have committed
a household robbery on the night in question. Arrested for complicity in the robbery,
Pierre sinks further into the mire when the woman he is accused of raping identifies him
as her aggressor.
Review
Some ebullient performances make this rather convoluted farce entertaining – watch out
for Louis de Funès in one of his early supporting roles. As usual, the narrative
is driven by a seemingly endless series of improbable mix-ups of identity, but some of
the jokes are actually quite good. The film’s highpoint is the hilarious sequences
where the investigating judge and his entourage attempt to identify a love bite on a witness’
upper thigh – you wouldn’t find that kind of thing in an American film of this period.
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