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Les Espions

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Les Espions
Directed byHenri-Georges Clouzot
Written byHenri-Georges Clouzot
Jerome Geronimi
StarringCurd Jürgens
Véra Clouzot
Gerard Sety
Sam Jaffe
Peter Ustinov
CinematographyChristian Matras
Music byGeorges Auric
Release date
1957
CountriesFrance
Italy

Les Espions ("The Spies") is a 1957 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and written by Clouzot with Jerôme Géronim and Egon Hostovsky. The cast includes Gérard Séty, Peter Ustinov, Curd Jürgens, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe, Martita Hunt and the director's wife, Véra Clouzot. The music was composed by Georges Auric.

Plot summary

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.