Bethsabée

Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoits novel Bethshabee Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover Captain Duveuil It so happens that one of Arabellas previous amours Captain Somerville Paul Meurisse is also serving at the same post So much for joining the Foreign Legion to forget A climactic knife duel solves the films various plot complications Despite its Foreign Legion background Bethsabee has next to no action which must have made things difficult when the film was distributed to the US