A deft thriller in the hardboiled tradition of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, this story of murderous revenge opens with Michel Bardinet, playing a wealthy Frenchman, being gunned down in broad daylight. Trintignant, the detective assigned to the case, can find no motive behind the
slaying. Soon two others are killed in the same mysterious way. Trintignant is convinced a link exists between the three deaths, yet he has nothing to go on. A slim thread of hope comes when Sanda, Bardinet's stepdaughter, gives the detective a pocket diary that had belonged to the dead man. The
diary contains, among other things, a list of Bardinet's lovers. One woman on this ro...
Released:
1972
Rated:
PG
Length:
102 mins