Returning from one his latest amorous escapades, an unfaithful husband
is confronted by his wife. To avoid having to answer a series of
embarrassing and condemnatory questions, the husband feigns
deafness. The man's entourage soon begins to believe that he
genuinely is deaf and talk freely, so freely in fact that they reveal
his wife has been seeing another man...
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.
American film comedy had its heyday in the 1920s and '30s, but it remains an important genre and has given American cinema some of its enduring classics.