Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to Gilberte's family. He needs friends. And friends are hard to come by in his town.
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
1941년, 나치 점령하의 프랑스. 임무를 수행하고 돌아가던 영국 공군의 비행기가 독일군 대공포를 맞아 추락한다. 영국군 조종사 레지널드, 피터, 앨런은 낙하산을 타고 간신히 탈출해 목숨을 건진다. 셋은 도장업자 오귀스탱, 인형극을 하는 쥘리에트, 오케스트라 지휘자 스타니슬라스의 도움을 받게 되는데, 독일군 장교 아흐바흐는 이들을 붙잡기 위해 추격을 멈추지 않는다. 나치 점령기를 배경으로 한 코미디로, 오랜 세월 동안 깨지지 않은 흥행 기록을 세우기도 했다.
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.
