This French thriller
begins at a small boarding school for boys. The principal is a difficult man
who is married to a wealthy but frail teacher, and his mistress is another one
of the teachers. Because he has been awful and abusive to both of the they
befriend each other and devise a plan to kill him. They lure him away from
school and eventually drown him in a bathtub. They go back to the school and
dispose of the body in the murky pool. The deed is done and they are both apprehensive,
especially the frail wife. When the pool is finally drained there is no body!
This and other strange occurrences further frighten the wife and she becomes
sickly. However, she could never expect what she saw one night that led her to
die of fright. The twist at the end of the film is good. It is rumored that
Hitchcock tried to get the rights to this story. He would just have to settle
for making Psycho instead. What a shame.
4.5/5 Stars
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