Joy House (film)
- Alain Delon: Marc
- Jane Fonda: Melinda
- Lola Albright: Barbara
- Sorrell Booke: Harry
- Carl Studer: Loftus
- André Oumansky: Vincent
How big cats is a French psychological thriller from the year 1964.
Action
The young French Playboy Marc embarks on an affair with the wife of a New York crime boss. When the affair blows up, granted this his henchmen ordered to liquidate Marc. In a hotel on the Côte d' Azur Marc is tracked down and captured by the gangsters. Through a foolhardy maneuver in which he can plunge his car off the cliff into the sea, the flight succeeds. In recharger distress he tried hiding in nearby Nice. In a poor feeding in a church, in which he has taken refuge, he meets by chance the very rich widow Barbara and her cousin Melinda, which operate here ostensibly as a Samaritan. The two women find pleasure in the attractive Marc and help him shake off his pursuers. They take him to their palazzo -like villa where he takes the place of the chauffeur pro forma. The atmosphere there appears to him mysterious and ambiguous. Gradually, Marc discovers that he is not the only one in the villa who has found shelter here. The mistress of Barbara, Vincent has killed Barbara's husband two years ago and has since been wanted by the police. Barbara keeps him hidden in her villa, he lives there in a secret chamber behind a large mirror like in a prison. Barbara looked after him, served him his meals and meets with him to love nights in his room. For Marc happening in the villa are all the more dangerous when he also needs to realize that Barbara begins to care for him while he is already ensnared by the seductive, lascivious Melinda. Finally it comes to the final confrontation between Marc, Barbara and Vincent, during which Barbara and Vincent are killed. Marc recognizes that a further stay lost in the villa for him any mind, so he tries to accomplish his long been planned departure from the villa. But Melinda knows how to prevent this with feminine sophistication. On the run from the police he initially seems übrigzubleiben than to return to the mansion, where he is hidden by Melinda just in that room, which has previously served as a shelter Vincent nothing. Marc has no choice but to continue to keep them hidden, as it is now sought to be of American gangsters and also by the French police. Now he is at the mercy Melinda and her caprices entirely, to a promising flight is out of the question for now. As a consolation, he receives from Melinda a small tiger cat as a gift.
Background
How big cats is the first feature film by the American actress Jane Fonda turned in France. The film was based on the novel Joy House of Day Keene.
Reviews
" Exciting staged, but overly constructed thriller with crime and horror elements; successful genre of entertainment under the safe guidance of an old master. "