Max Pécas' 1967 Une femme aux abois concerns the sexual blackmail of an adulterous housewife by her degenerate half-brother Maurice and his compliant girlfriend, who use their leverage to engage her in their debauchery. The deux ex machina arrives in the form of a skin-headed psycho with a grudge to settle against Maurice. With Claude Cerval from Bob le Flambeur, Milarka Nervi (Beyond Love and Evil), and Pierre Tissot from Pecas' The Black Hand. The tawdry tale was written by novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette, who also scripted last week's entry Little Girls. Pecas' original was so sufficiently kinky that Bob Cresse's Olympic International had no need to film inserts.
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