How sad is this?

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

That's what the French title means.It's one of the numerous two-bit spy thrillers which were thriving in France during the cold war.Directed by Georges Lautner,with a weak cast -with the exception of Bernard lier -,a trite confused plot involving the de rigueur stolen documents,abductions,treacheries,murders,this movie 's one originality is that the action takes place in a mine for the final sequences.Bernard Blier and Georges Lautner will do a much better job in 1963 with "le septième juré".