Bluebeard

Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe director ChristianJaque dashed off the lampoonish BarbeBleue Ostensibly the story of the famed wifekilling potentate Bluebeard Pierre Brasseur this lighthearted costumer begins as the title character is poised to march down the matrimonial aisle for the eighth time BarbeBleues newest spouse Aline Cécile Aubry is kept in line by her husbands claims of murdering her predecessors But when Aline opens the famous locked door to the equally famous hidden room both she and the audience are in for quite a surprise The frivolous nature of BarbeBleue is underlined by its pleasing utilization of the French Gezacolor process