Word: roublard
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...sized up the grisly situation with terrible clarity. Its nostrils flared; its eyes rolled wildly. Screaming, rearing and kicking, it nearly brained a butcher with vicious swipes of its hoofs. The boss of the abattoir, Marius Auteroche, 52, a roly-poly little man whom all Arcueil knows as un roublard (a sharp operator), instantly decided that this horse had too much spirit to be slaughtered. He would use the beast to make another kind of killing...
Hero of The French Touch is Roublard, a famous, thrice-married, hammy actor-playwright (Brian Aherne) who is ordered by the Nazi Minister of Culture to write a collaborationist drama. He writes one, with parts for his current and ex-wives and a surprise finale that will explode in the Nazis' faces. During an extensive rehearsal period the three ladies claw one another while Roublard gaily courts them all. The Minister of Culture's interest in one of them (Arlene Francis) precipitates a crisis...
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