the Death of Beautiful is a French police officer, carried out by Edouard Molinaro in 1960.

Synopsis

Stephan Blanchon, professor in Switzerland, carry out a quiet life with his Christine wife. They place an American young person on their premises, Belle. One evening, during an absence of Christine, whereas Stephan works at the ground floor, Belle is strangled in its room of the first stage. During the survey carried out by an examining magistrate and a young police officer, the evidence seems to accumulate against Stephan who is soon openly marked by the judge to have killed Belle. Christine it even seems to suspect her husband and the public opinion is also turned against him. Only the police officer grows with the innocence of Stephan. The investigation makes discover that Belle loved Stephan in secrecy. After a interrogation, it is released. Instead of returning at his place, it runs the bars of Geneva where it meets a discharged fast liver who points out his father to him. Drunk, tried by a vulgar and weak woman, secretary of the examining magistrate, obsessed by the unjustified charges which weigh against him, it agrees to live a short adventure. But hardly in the arms of this woman, it kills it. At the same time, one discovers the assassin of Beautiful…

Data sheet

• Realizer: Edouard Molinaro

• Scenario: Jean Anouilh, according to the work of Georges Simenon
• Dialogs: Jean Anouilh
• Production: Directing Cinéphonic
• of production: Jean Darvey
• Director of the photography: Jean-Louis Picavet
• Sound: Antoine Petitjean
• Music: Georges Delerue
• Decorations: Robert Clavel
• Assembly: Robert Isnardon
• Lasted: 100mn
• Kind: Drama
• First presentation the 3/3/1961

Distribution

• Jean Desailly: Professor Stephan Blanchon

• Alexandra Stewart: Beautiful, the American young person
• Jacques Monod: The examining magistrate
• Yves Robert: The barman
• Yvette Etiévant: Alice, the woman met in the bar
• Louisa Colpeyn: The mother of Beautiful
• Pierre Vaneck: The employee of the mortuary
• Gabriel Gobin: The sergeant Apiary
• Jacques Hilling: The sergeant Cristever
• Pierre Kast: In love one with the hotel
• Suzanne Courtal: Mrs. Pidout
• Georges Cusin
• Lucien Frégis: The agent Receptionist
• Jacques Shepherd
• Marc Cassot: The police chief
• Lucien Hubert: Mr. Pidout
• Monique Mélinand: Christine Blanchon, the woman of the professor
• Christian Lude: The family practitioner
• Charles Nissar
• Jacques Pierre
• Georges Pierre
• Maurice Teynac: The drunkard of the bar
• Van Doude: Professor Lewis the " psy"
• Jacques Préboist: The guard of the college
• Saddy Rebot: A young person with the bar
• Albert Michel: A doctor
• Anne Valon