The Man in the Raincoat

Year: 1957

Runtime: 106 mins

Language: French

Director: Julien Duvivier

MysteryComedy

Under Julien Duvivier’s deft direction, this macabre comedy follows a clarinet player whose absent wife leaves him free to be coaxed by a friend into meeting a call girl. He arrives too late to discover a murder, and a rain‑coated figure seen fleeing the scene makes him the prime suspect. To clear his name before it is publicly aired—especially before his wife returns—he must identify the real killer.

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