With "Adorables démons" ,Maurice Cloche,once more in the fifties and sixties ,hit rock bottom .
An invaluable necklace was stolen by a model (Claudine Dupuis) when she displayed her physique under an old husband's (Rellys) eyes ;and his wife (Dora Doll ) must wear it for a ball,a situation not unlike that of the queen who had lost her 'ferrets" (=diamond studs) in "Les Trois Mousquetaires "; husband and wife had made a deal : if the necklace was lost by one of them, the other one had to give a hefty sum .So the unfortunate hubby hires two private eyes ,Willis jr and Willis sr.
This dismal comedy is partially saved by some of its actors:Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault,then a team ,portray detectives who are about as astute as Hergé's "les Dupondt "(the Thompson twins) and the desperate hubby is none the wiser ; he even tries to investigate himself and his disguise looks like Hergé 's Professeur Tournesol (Calculus)
Both Poiret and Serrault save something from the wreckage ;so does Claude Piéplu as a shrink apparently looking for patients for his insane asylum.
The same cannot be said for Dora Doll, absurdly cast as a Russian wife (whereas it would have taken Elvire Popesco) ; to give the movie a Russian touch ,one is granted a version of "plaine ,ma plaine" ( ="meadowsland"= " polyuska polye" ) written by Lev Knipper which the Russian soldiers would sing in WW2.
