WITNESS IN THE CITY aka UN TEMOIN DANS LA VILLE (1959)

A man's wife is murdered by her lover and the lover gets away with it in the eyes of the law, but the husband has other ideas. What starts out as a simple tale of revenge descends into nightmarish complications. I was reminded of Fredric Brown's classic thriller novel HIS NAME WAS DEATH with all the creeping horror and relentless turns of the plot. The film originates from no less than Boileau-Narcejac, the French writing duo who wrote the source novels for Hitchcock's VERTIGO and Clouzot's LES DIABOLIQUES. Hitchcock would have hit the humorous moments better, but Molinaro was no slouch in the director's chair. This is a good movie.