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...reason to leave Nice on a bus. He follows her by car, but at the first rest stop she vanishes. Next morning her body is found at the bottom of a ravine. The coincidence of two dead wives materializing at bus stops piques the interest of Inspector Robert Hossein, a sadist who practices police brutality with chilling Gallic esprit. Soon accusations and counteraccusations begin to ricochet off the walls. Having committed a fairly perfect crime at the outset, Frobe takes murderous pride in his achievement. Though Ronet is guilty only of intent to murder, he feels responsible for his wife...
...memorable variation, he has her running the vacuum toute nue. Based on a bestselling French novel, Warrior's Rest, the movie casts Bardot as a girl who inherits a fortune, goes to Dijon to collect it, instead picks up a suicidal rake named Renaud (Robert Hossein). After saving his life, she feels responsible for him, so she moves him into her bed, where most of the action takes place. Soon she gives up friends, family and fiance. "This situation is permanent?" sniffs her mother. "Well, for the moment," says BB succinctly...
...seldom looked more beautiful, and between zips she delivers intimations of creditable talent. But Director Vadim displays a flair for the banal that few actresses could conquer, particularly in his final scene: windblown and fully clothed, Bardot stands rigid amid the sun-drenched ruins of a Tuscan cathedral, while Hossein makes one of those long, long walks to fling himself at her feet...
...main characters, Lili (Sonia), Rene Brunel (Raskolnikov), Nicole Brunel (Dounia) and Inspecteur Gallet (Porfiry), act their way through the famous intellectual-kills-pawnbroker-and-suffers plot with a considerable degree of accomplishment. Robert Hossein as Rene seems to suffer a bit too dramatically but this is probably in the novel and becomes grating only when it actually has to be seen on the screen. Marina Vlady is properly wistful and ineffectual as Lili, the embodiment of the beautiful soul who becomes a prostitute to feed the family which her stepfather has deserted, and Ulla Jacobssen is excellent in the less...
Khan claimed that last year he tried repeatedly to submit a constitution to the Dean, but was prevented by Sayied Hossein Nasr, who was then president of the Society. "I was chided by the other officers of the Society for concerning myself with what they called 'petty things'", he added...