Billy wilder's first film as director, made during his brief stint in Paris before heading to the US. Its about a playboy Pierre Mindand, a skinny dued, who gets mixed up with car thieves. Dannielle Darrieux is the girl - she was very young, and plays the brother of one of the gang.
It's a cheapie but at least there's location filming as opposed to cheap studio work. It's rickety and feels made up on the spot with lots of scenes of people driving around but has its own nervous energy. There's a black actor amongst the gang. The plot involves the gang of thieves wanting a pay rise from their boss!
It sort of ambles along and then ends. Interesting to watch. Not terrible. But really only for Wilder completists.
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