Scoundrel in White
1972
⏱️ 95 min
📅 Released
🌐 FR
Comedy
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.
Crew
Director
Claude Chabrol
Writer
Paul Gégauff
Producer
Alain Belmondo, Georges Casati, André Génovès
Production
Rizzoli Film, Cerito Films, Les Films de la Boétie
Keywords
based on novel or booknurseparaplegicmarriagedark comedysatirebordeaux, francemachismomarriage of convenienceprejudice