By and large ,Roland André's works of the late forties and fifties were a notch or two above the abysmal production which was to follow afterward ,each movie lousier than the one before .
"Les Indiscretes" is a harmless little comedy which may possess a little appeal for fifties cinema fans;a threesome of charming actresses helps: Louise Carletti , Dany Carrel and Nicole Berger who was to disappear early in a car crash .
A businessman is killed in a car crash,caused by a heart attack.A young girl,Elisabeth, has seen the accident.The dying man tells her that his fortune, he's just withdrawn from the bank, is intended for his illegitimate son, now a young doctor who does not know who his biological father is.He gives the package to the young girl ,recommending her not to tell him where the money comes.Elisabeth lives in a boarding-house where she meets her two best friends.They go in search of the young doctor ,but ,as the newspapers talk about the disappearance of the banknotes, they fear they may be suspected of theft.
The screenplay is somewhat repetitive , not always witty ,but there are good gags : Elisabeth who does not realize her visitors are cops,even after seeing their cars; her friend ,asking for 400,000 francs every ten minutes;the three girls imagining what might happen to them if they give back the money ;the doctor (played by heart-throb Frank Vilard) overtaken by events , who takes the money to the lost and found ,then complaining because he receives lots and lots of money...And a pair of cops (one of them played by Jean Lefèvre ) worse than Dumb and Dumber or the Thompson twins.
Entertaining ,but the average viewer will forget all about the movie as soon as the word " fin" ("the end " ) appear.
