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The Infernal Trio (1974)

The Infernal Trio (1974)

Crime Comedy
Release Date: 1974, May 22
Directors: Francis Girod
Countries: Germany, France, Italy
Production: Belstar Productions, Belstar Productions, Lira Films, Lira Films, Films 66, Films 66, Oceania Film, Oceania Film, T.I.T. Filmproduktion, T.I.T. Filmproduktion
Cast: Andréa Ferréol, Romy Schneider, Philippe Brizard, Michel Piccoli, Hubert Deschamps, Monique Tarbès, Francis Claude, Jean Rigaux, Mascha Gonska, Monica Fiorentini

Overview:

Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...

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