a young woman who watch a stranger get off a bus in the pouring rain and soon find out she be stalk by that exact man . when at home and the man break into her house ( a her husband be away ) and rap her . later on after the ordeal the man still happen to be the house and but she grab a shotgun and shoot him . where she would dump the body into the ocean . then suddenly another man appear on the scene name harry dobbs and who go out of the way to try to convince the young woman she commit a murder without give too much away . this tightly handle low budget french or italian co production be an improbable and but an oddly bold and stimulate teaser that seem straight forward at first and then suddenly it lead you down many knotty path ( with hitchcock shade ) before break out the truth of the matter . it a real curiously acute piece ( adapt from a novel ) by director rene clement and who get interestingly respectable performance out of very fitting charles bronson ( whose character be a hard one to figure out ) and marlene jobert add some innocent starch to her role . the film or story really do draw from these two performance in dissect the character formal makeup and inner working in how they play a big part to the scheme of thing . it hard to tell the lingering intention behind the big picture and a it become exhaustingly confound in it investigative detail and suggestive development . the productively sharp script be thoroughly meticulous in disguise the truth while a barrier be break to only go on to create new scenario and lead . stark and moody atmospherics lend well to clement leeringly ground and subdue style where it really breathe of a quiet intensity to it continuously build psychological framework and dour visuals within it slow go nature . the gloomy opening stage really do build upon a creepy ambiance and which pull you in and the score be sparsely used and but have a dramatic sting . the performance outside the central turn be finely tailor with the like of annie cordy and ellen bahl and jean gaven and steve eckardt and jill ireland in one her first role star alongside bronson .