To Hell with the Virtue

Jean Laviron 's works are eminently forgettable today ,be they vehicles for Eddie Constantine ("Votre Dévoué Blake",certainly his most palatable film,thanks to its principal) or French comedies ("Les Héritiers" in which we learn that " bats flesh tastes like veal").

"Au Diable La Vertu" is another coarse comedy ,although it may pass for entertaining , for the screenplay has enough sudden new developments to sustain interest till the end ,for an undemanding viewer .

A man does not want his wife to learn he's got a lover ,so he asks the first to come to be his alibi ( an agency provides this kind of service ,but ,although their office is across the street ,they make a charge for travelling costs!).Besides, the "alibi" is a wanted man ,which makes the matters worse ; what follows is an interminable story in which men and women cuckold their spouses ,including a rather crude scene in a police station when a woman's thigh has to be inspected.

The catholic central office of cinema forbade their flock this filth.