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Paul, a former womanizer, marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
Keywords
based on novel or book
nurse
paraplegic
marriage
dark comedy
satire
bordeaux, france
machismo
marriage of convenience
prejudice
clinic
doctor
marriage for money
sister-in-law
tunisia
doctor nurse relationship
Casts

Jean-Paul Belmondo
Doctor Paul Simay

Mia Farrow
Christine Dupont

Laura Antonelli
Martine Dupont

Marlène Appelt
Nurse Carole

Dominique Zardi
Bishop

Daniel Lecourtois
Professor Dupont

Daniel Ivernel
Doctor Berthier

Patrick Préjean
Arthur Ringard

Michel Peyrelon
Joseph Melville

Henri Attal
'La sourde'

Maja Wodecka
Louis Duranton

Monique Fardoulis
Christophe Merle
Madame Steeg

Catherine Ohotnikoff

Josiane Balasko
Ugly girl (uncredited)

Christian Chauvaud
Friend of Dr. Popaul (uncredited)

Patrice Énard
(uncredited)

Louis Navarre
Suitor of Martine (uncredited)

André Penvern
(uncredited)

Daniel Villattes
(uncredited)
Crews

Claude Chabrol
Director

Paul Gégauff
Screenplay

Hubert Monteilhet
Novel
André Génovès
Producer

Alain Belmondo
Producer

Georges Casati
Producer

Pierre Jansen
Original Music Composer
Louis Devaivre
Sound Designer
Guy Chichignoud
Sound Designer
Jean Rabier
Director of Photography
Jacques Gaillard
Editor
Guy Littaye
Set Decoration
Backdrops & Posters


