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In French with English subtitles. Also known as Three Sinners and
Murders? NOTE: There is an on-screen logo present throughout the film.
Produced in 1950, the French
Meurtres? was adapted by Charles Plisnier from his own novel. The film was billed as the dramatic debut of comic-actor
Fernandel, and though it really wasn't, he acquits himself nicely in a rare serious assignment. The topic is euthanasia: Noel Annequin's (Fernandel) dying wife begs her husband to put her out of her misery. He does so, then confesses his crime to his three brothers, all pillars of the community. Pursuing their own selfish agendae, the brothers cart their sibling off to a lunatic asylum. Only Noel's niece Martine (
Jeanne Moreau) remains loyal...
