Scoundrel in White

Docteur Popaul

1972 · 1h 35m · 5.2

Comedy

Paul, a former womanizer, marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.

Claude Chabrol

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mia Farrow, Laura Antonelli, Marlène Appelt, Dominique Zardi, Daniel Lecourtois, Daniel Ivernel, Patrick Préjean, Michel Peyrelon, Henri Attal

based on novel or book, nurse, paraplegic, marriage, dark comedy, satire, bordeaux, france, machismo, marriage of convenience, prejudice, clinic, doctor, marriage for money, sister-in-law, tunisia, doctor nurse relationship