With this film and Le Corbeau, Henri-Georges Clouzot (yes, pronounced like Peter Sellers’ Clouseau) made two of the finest small town thrillers that France, and the world at large, has ever seen. Fargo is as good as this but that comes much, much later.
LES DIABOLIQUES
Henri-Georges Clouzot
1955
Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
Screenplay by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jérôme Géronimi; adapted from the novel Celle qui n'était plus by Boileau-Narcejac