the extraordinarily adorable suzy delair play a statuesque performer obsess with succeed in the theater . her husband and accompanist and play by bernard blier and be a composed but jealous man . when he find out in a less than preferable way that his flashy wife have plan a rendezvous with a lecherous old businessman with the intention of advance her career and he lose all control and threaten the businessman with murder . now and at that point and i must stop describe the film to you because it skate on such thin ice with it twist and revelation and ambiguity and suspense that to imply any of it would endanger it . i be not sure how good or bad that be for this french police procedural emanating from the song and dance community and though it be certainly interest that what we do know throughout be who do not do it . we just do not know who do . the story depend upon the procedure of follow clue and where ideal alibis fail and where cautiously create fabrication and deception disintegrate . interestingly and this be a suspense film in which suspense be generate in spite of the knowledge one would traditionally think too much too soon . quay of the goldsmith be the least dark of henri george clouzot film . it nowhere near as sinister a the shocking les diaboliques and as tragic a the rivet wage of fear or as eery a le corbeau . maybe it be due to the vibrance of the dance hall and theater setting of 1940s france and which all work a the milieu of this crime thriller . clouzot both understands and approves of his character and even the more rotten one and where he have more of a vindictive streak with his other film . where he may have have understanding for the scheme woman in les diabolique or the truck driver who sink to the level of risk horrible death in order to oust themselves from miserable life in the wage of fear and there isn not necessarily support or agreement on the part of the filmmaker and for these be character who plainly make the direct decision that determine their fate . all the character in this more settling film have scene and moment that endear u to them and even the harsh and cold detective play by louis jouvet and who worry about his young adoptive son amid all the trouble and despair that happen in his life at any time with the drop of a hat . there be humor and unabashed sexiness and the latter mostly on the part of delair and that neutralize the pressure to a degree . clouzot be quietly practice his craft and patient till he make his unrelenting later film and in which he would permit his audience no pardon from the tension .