The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

• DirectorHenri-Georges Clouzot
• Release29 January 1955
• Genre
  Thriller / Mystery
• Duration1h 57m
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• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  7.9
  1043 reviews
• Productions

  Véra Films, Filmsonor