Cinema: Fromage-ca! Les Flics!

Doulos—The Finger Man. Lippy Jean-Paul Belmondo, who first made crime pay as a pint-size Bogart in Breathless, now proves himself a magnum Cagney who can rough up a moll in vintage Chicago style. When Jean-Paul wants blonde Thérèse to rat on a pal, he slugs her, ties her wrists to her ankles, loops a belt around her neck and lashes it to a radiator pipe, gags her, decants a bottle of Haig & Haig over her while she's down, slugs her again. "Now sweetheart, baby, act sensibly," he coos. So she does. Later, the police find poor Therese under her...

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