Ladies vanish
9 March 2008
White slave trade was a trendy subject at the time.It's Edouard Molinaro's second film and like the first one "le Dos au Mur" ,and the follow-up ("Un Témoin Dans la Ville" )it's a thriller.It would be 1960 before Molinaro made a truly worthy film noir:"La Mort de Belle" from Simenon.

Robert Hossein portrays a man whose fiancée mysteriously disappeared.There's a house where girls are invited:they promise them anything:to become a top model,to travel around the world,all that in a chic atmosphere ,a perfect lure .

Best performance comes from Jane Marken,as Mrs Cassini,a woman who pretends to help the hero whereas...The actress could epitomize evil as few of her peers could do ("Manèges" by Yves Allégret).

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