"Pièges" manages to successfully juggle several different genres (romantic comedy, musical, suspense thriller and red-herring-loaded whodunit), but it goes on too long; Maurice Chevalier's 2nd song, for example, is fun but unnecessary. Marie Déa is a strong, competent lead; there is an amazingly erotic sequence where a man tries to boss her around but she verbally turns the tables on him and winds up making him her slave! Erich von Stroheim also has a small but memorable part. **1/2 out of 4.
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Personal Column
(1939)
One of the earliest serial-killer thrillers....and it's a musical comedy too!
11 July 2022
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