Tripe a la Mode de Cannes

Two Are Guilty affects to study the elusive nature of truth and justice, but it is really just a peep show with pretensions. Tony Perkins, cast as an artist-composer-jailbird, speaks French in this melodrama directed by Andre Cayatte (Tomorrow Is My Turn). He does little else to embellish this unsavory little film.

After the kidnap-slaying of a rich widow's young son, police chase the two killers to the wet end of a jetty in the harbor at Cannes. Suddenly, three men step forth, each claiming that he is an innocent bystander and the other two the culprits. All their alibis seem as dubious as their morals.

Perkins claims that he was strolling on the pier after refusing-an aging degenerate's offer of 2,000,000 francs for one of his paintings--and the painter. Con Man Jean-Claude Brialy says he spent the night of the crime trying to peddle his kid sister to a tourist. And Gigolo Renato Salvatori was supposedly helping his latest client recover from an overdose of sleeping pills. As the case of "the triplets" unfolds, police and jury realize that they may have to free two murderers to save one innocent man. But the really guilty ones are Director Cayatte & Co.

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