Les Espions aka The Spies
Alfred Hitchcock and Henri-Georges Clouzot spent the 1950s casting directorial glances of mutual admiration at each other. Les Espions (The Spies in English) is Clouzot’s most overt homage to one of Hitchcock’s amused thrillers… and he gets it completely wrong. A non-thrilling thriller crossed with a non-funny comedy is the result. Gérard Séty plays the Hitchcockian innocent abroad, a shrink running a struggling private psychiatric clinic who is asked by an American agent to hide a spy on the run in return for a big wedge of cash. The Americans have chosen this place, it seems, because no one will think to look for an escaped spy in an asylum. Also, as a … Read more
