La Dragée haute (1960)
Directed by Jean Kerchner

Film Synopsis

Hugo Bersac is an ambitious young journalist on a provincial newspaper, Midi Jour, who is impatient to make a name for himself as a serious reporter.  His long awaited opportunity comes when a fashion model is murdered.  His curiosity pricked, Hugo immediately begins following the criminal investigation.  He soon becomes disappointed with the ineffective police enquiry and decides that he will himself unmask the killer.  Ignoring the advice of his boss and pleas of his adoring wife Evelyne, Hugo throws himself into the labyrinth of crime, just as two other women are murdered...