Top Cast
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Lino Ventura
Ancelin
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Jacques Berthier
Pierre Verdier
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Daniel Ceccaldi
Italian taxi customer
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Robert Dalban
Raymond, taxi driver
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Micheline Luccioni
Germaine, radio taxi
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Franco Fabrizi
Lambert, night radio taxi
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Janine Darcey
Owner of the hotel
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Jacques Monod
Verdier's lawyer
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Michel Etcheverry
Investigating judge
Overview
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.
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