Don't Tempt the Devil
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Christian-jaque
Marina Vlady
Bourvil
Virna Lisi
Pierre Brasseur
José-luis De Vilallonga
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Cardiac patient Paul Dupré receives his regular injection from his nurse, Gina Bianchi, then collapses and dies. As Gina runs to telephone the doctor, Catherine, Dupré's wife, enters and attempts to seize the vial of medicine. The two women fight briefly, and the vial is crushed. Catherine summons lawyer Cassidi, friend of her late husband and her former lover. She accuses Gina of Dupré's murder, but Gina denies all guilt, including the charge that she was Dupré's mistress. Magistrate Gaudet interrogates Gina and finds circumstantial evidence against her. Laboratory tests show that the material injected--different from what Dupré should have received--was fatal. Catherine and Cassidi now resume their affair, and she confides to him that she herself contrived the murder because her husband was about to divorce her and marry Gina. Cassidi is aghast but is hopelessly in love and agrees to help her. The wily Gaudet senses that Catherine is the guilty one. He resigns from the case and with the help of lawyer Philliet works and even testifies for Gina in court, but nevertheless she is found guilty and sentenced to a jail term. After the trial, Cassidi tries to reach Catherine and learns she is having an affair with another, now that she no longer needs him. He arranges for justice to triumph, with Catherine winding up behind bars and Gina freed.
Director
Christian-jaque
Cast
Marina Vlady
Bourvil
Virna Lisi
Pierre Brasseur
José-luis De Vilallonga
Umberto Orsini
Mony Dalmès
Jacques Monod
Jacques Mauclair
Robert Vidalin
François Darbon
Gilbert Gil
Crew
Paul Andréota
Georges Cheyko
Christian-jaque
Jacques Desagneau
Georges Garvarentz
Ludmilla Goulian
Jacques Helm
Henri Jeanson
Henri Jeanson
Jean Mandaroux
Umberto Orsini
William Sivel
Armand Thirard
Film Details
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Trivia
Notes
Paris opening: April 1963 as Les bonnes causes; running times: 120 and 115 min. Rome opening: August 1963 as Il delitto Dupré; running time: 105 min. Some U. S. sources credit Orsini as coauthor of screenplay; French and Italian sources credit only Jeanson, Andréota, and Christian-Jaque.
