LES ATOUTS DE MONSIEUR WENS
La carrière politique de Lucien Dolo, riche diamantaireAnversois, est compromise lorsqu'il est accusé du meurtre de son frère jumeau,
M.Wens is Steeman's Hercule Poirot. But he is not the star of the movie. Here the detective takes a back seat to the hero(es) played by a sensational Louis Salou .Salou portrays two brothers ,Lucien and Freddy Dolo:the first one is a well-meaning bourgeois with wife (Marie Déa) ,the second a shady person who disappeared in Africa 10 years ago and who suddenly reappears when his nice brother begins to be suspected of having done away with him.
Louis Salou's performance is remarkable .He succeeds in making us believe there are TWO different men. A brilliant variation on the Stevenson "Doctor Jekill and MrHyde" theme, it grabs the audience and leaves it panting for breath in the last third. Like in Hitchcock's "Vertigo" De Meyst reveals the whole truth fifteen minutes before the end and the final scenes are absolutely mind-boggling mixing fine lines (as Wens ,pursued by the criminal, tries to climb , Dolo screams:"there's nothing up there but the sky" )humour and folie à deux (Déa seeing the black sheep of the family turning into her husband).
| année de production: | 1947 |
| genre: | polar |
| durée: | 95 min |
| procédé: | Zwart/wit - Noir et blanc |
| version: | française (son synchrone) sans sous-titres |
| production: | Belnapro |
| réalisation: | E.G. De Meyst |
| scénario: | Jacques Companeez et Norbert Carbonnaux d'après le roman de A. Steeman |
| images: | Maurice Delattre |
| musique: | Robert Pottier |
| interprétation: | Louis Salou, Marie Déa, Claudine Dupuis, Werner Degan, Marcel Josz, Denise Volny, Jos Gevers, Omer Ducarme, Georges Jamin, Viviane Chantel, René Herdé, Réginald. |