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Scoundrel in White

Scoundrel in White

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 29, 1972

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

52%

Original Title

Docteur Popaul

Production Companies

Rizzoli Film, Cerito Films, Les Films de la Boétie

Director

Claude Chabrol

Description

Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.