Bell plays a middle-aged woman gambler who relates her life story to a casino croupier during a lapse in the action. Quickly switching to Girardot playing Bell at a younger age, the film goes from one situation to another, all a result of her romantic endeavors with a variety of men. In
only one affair does she genuinely fall in love, this being with Brialy, a bartender whose life ends in tragedy when he is shot during an attempted robbery of the bar. Girardot/Bell eventually does settle down to a long and devoted marriage that produces a daughter. But this also ends as a result
of Bell's succumbing to the seductiveness of the man (Marquand) who was to marry her da...
Released:
1964
Rated:
NR
Length:
97 mins