Summer grab-bag, part one
As usual, there’s no coherent pattern to what I spend my time watching. In the past few months, I given my overtaxed attention to quite a few movies from the ’70s and ’80s – British sex comedies and cop movies, Italian […]
Review: The Body of My Enemy (1976)
Director: Henri Verneuil
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier, René Lefèvre, François Perrot,
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Bernard Blier
Marie-France Pisier
René Lefèvre
François Perrot
Plot: 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.
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