Les Espions

Les Espions ("The Spies") is a 1957 French-Italian noir mystery film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov O. E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe, Paul Carpenter, Véra Clouzot, Martita Hunt and Gérard Séty,. The music was composed by Georges Auric. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. Plot The plot concerns a doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital, who is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is. Cast Curd Jürgens as Alex Peter Ustinov as Michel Kaminsky O. E. Hasse as Hugo Vogel Sam Jaffe as Sam Cooper Paul Carpenter as Le colonel Howard Véra Clouzot as Lucie Martita Hunt as Connie Harper Gérard Séty as Le docteur Malic Gabrielle Dorziat as Madame Andrée - I'infirmière Louis Seigner as Valette - le morphinomane Pierre Larquey as Le chauffeur de taxi Georgette Anys as La buraliste Jean Brochard as Le surveillant-général Bernard Lajarrige as Le garçon de café Dominique Davray as L'Alsacienne Daniel Emilfork as Helmut Petersen - un espion Jean-Jacques Lécot as Le faux contrôleur (as Jean-Jacques Lecot) Robert Lombard as Le contrôleur Patrick Dewaere as Le petit Moinet (as Patrick Maurin) Clément Harari as Victor - le faux garçon de café Sacha Pitoëff as Léon (as Sacha Pitoeff) Fernand Sardou as Pierre