Stars: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Jean Brochard, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Summary: A school teacher who runs a boarding school mistreats both his wife and mistress, so much so that together they murder him. Later they realise that his body is missing from the murder scene and they begin to panic... Who else knows?

In this heralded French terror classic by director-screenwriter Henri-Georges Clouzot, the wife (Vera Clouzot) of a boys-school headmaster (Paul Merisse) tires of his violent treatment of her, along with his philandering, and teams up with his mistress (Simone Signoret) to drown him and make it appear as a suicide. When the body goes missing and sightings of the supposedly dead man are reported all over town, the two mismatched women must uncover what happened to the body before it's discovered what they've done. Upon its release, Clouzot urged all who saw the film not to reveal its surprise ending---one which still stands as one of the original 'shock' endings.

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Main Language:	French
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Audio commenty - Insights into Clouzot's Masterpiece of Terror by Professor Susan Hayward
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1954
Release Date:	October 29, 2007
Runtime:	112 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	F C D 337
Keywords:	Subtitled, General, French, Drama, Les, Diaboliques, Diabolique
Genre:	Drama