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Newspaper editor Rupert (Paul Frankeur) pays a visit to his girlfriend
(Cosetta Greco), only to find her dead, murdered. Quite understandably he
panics, but instead of calling the police he calls Barney (Eddie
Constantine), his ace reporter and best friend. And out of friendship, and
believing Rupert to be innocent, Barney helps him hush up the whole thing
... but not only that, he finds some evidence that leads him to Michel
Gérard (Olivier Hussenot), who seems to be a tailor-made culprit ... he
is/was the dead woman's husband who just came out of jail and found her
cheating on him big time (with Rupert, among others), enough
to make him guilty as hell. And so Barney has no remorse in actually
catching the man for the police and essentially send him to the gallows
...
Thing is though, Michel Gérard did not do it (and neither did Rupert
in case you wondered), but noone will believe him except for his attorney,
lovely young Marianne (Bella Darvi), but in court she has no evidence that
could free her client. In her desperation, and with Gérard already
sentenced to death, she turns to Barney, who at first wants to hear
nothing of it, but soon starts having doubts about his own actions and
Gérard's guilt as well, gets roaringly drunk, and in that state starts
investigating ... and soon his investigations lead him to Olivier (Robert
Lombard) - who by the way was the killer, but only the audience knows that
yet -, the son of his newspaper's owner Count de Villeterre (Aimé
Clariond), where he finds some evidence ... but rather than going straight
to the police, he goes to Rupert and tells him what he has found before
passing out from too much drink ... and Rupert pays a visit to Villeterre
and his son and confronts them with Barney's evidence - and Villeterre
offers him a top job at the newspaper in exchange for his silence.
And while Rupert falls up the ladder, Barney suddenly finds himself
without a case ... but he won't let Gérard and lovely Marianne down yet
and even turns criminal, stealing evidence from the Count and his son, and
trying his hand on blackmail ... but all the time, Rupert, whom Barney
stupidly enough still trusts, is ahead of the game, and eventually, Barney
and his partner in crime (literally speaking) Dédé the Mole (Walter
Chiari) even land in jail and have to make a daring escape from the court
house.
Ultimately though, Barney figures the only way out of the mess he has
gotten everybody into by helping Rupert is by (secretly) printing an
article in Rupert's newspaper withthe help of his friend the printer that
tells the whole truth ... and in the end his plan works, and Gérard is
released from prison.
Thing is, the whole affair has granted Barney himself a stay in prison
(for obstruction of justice among other things) - but Marianne promises to
get him out ...
Not a big film, but a likeable little crime comedy, that doesn't parody
the genre head-on like Eddie Constantine's Lemmy
Caution-series, but time and again even makes serious
reflections about its subject matter - without getting brain heavy though.
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