Les galets d’Etretat

This is the kind of movie which was obviously unworthy of the talented Maurice Ronet (“Plein Soleil” /(purple noon) or “Le Feu Follet” /(the fire within).And I’m sure that for the beautiful Virna Lisi ,who would be twenty years later the best Catherine de Medicis that ever was in a movie (“La Reine Margot”) it’s an unpleasant memory that is hard to forget.Sergio Gobbi made turkeys by the dozen,but this one takes the biscuit.Not better (or perhaps worse) than a Harlequin romance -with a very unpleasant rape scene- ,it does not even take advantage of the splendid landscapes :the white cliffs of Etretat.Take to your heels!