LA POISON (1951) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Sacha Guitry
Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Germaine Reuver,
Jacques Varennes, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Pauline Carton
A crackup black comedy from France, about a guy who kills his wife to prevent her from killing him. There's a bit of Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux" in this, but Guitry's approach feels looser, and why there was never an American remake by somebody like Hitchcock or Wilder or Woody Allen is hard to say. My favorite part was when a bunch of kids, hearing stories about the murder trial from a neighbor, build their own backyard guillotine.
