Poison
( La poison )
Release date
1951
Comedy .
96 min
Paul Braconnier is going through living hell with his wife, an alcoholic shrew. They are both trying to do away with each other. Paul goes to see a famous lawyer, who unwittingly tells him how to commit the crime. So Paul goes on, kills his wife and gives himself up to the police. The lawyer takes his case and Paul is acquitted. He triumphantly returns to the village.
A film by
Sacha GUITRY
With
Michel SIMON, Germaine REUVER, Jean DEBUCOURT, Jacques VARENNES, Georges BEVER, Pauline CARTON, Jeanne FUSIER-GIR, Sacha GUITRY, Albert DUVALEIX, Louis DE FUNÈS, Marcelle ARNOLD, Léon WALTHER, Henri LAVERNE, Max HENRY, Jacques DERIVES, Jacques DE FÉRAUDY, Robert MERCIER, Yvonne HEBERT, Luce FABIOLE, Marthe SARBEL, Max DEJEAN, Michel NASTORG, Louis EYMOND, André DALIBERT, Jimmy URBAIN, JACOMET, Jacques MOREL, Nicolas AMATO, Maurice PIERRAT, Maurice TEYNAC, Roger POIRIER, Marie FROMET, Thérèse QUENTIN, Yannick MALLOIRE, Suzanne DANTÈS
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scriptwriter
Sacha GUITRY
Dialogist
Sacha GUITRY