Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Tower Rats 2020

- Script of the Dead 2024

- The Bell Affair 2023

- Easter Bloody Easter 2024

- Velma 2022

- Everwinter Night 2023

- Main Character Energy 2023

- Stupid Games 2024

- Bittertooth 2023

- 4 Minutes of Terror: Night Slasher 2024

- Apart 2024

- The Abandoned 2006

- Becky 2024

- The Evil Fairy Queen 2024

- The Black Guelph 2022

- Followers 2024

- Silence of the Prey 2024

- Battle for the Western Front 2024

- Beware the Boogeyman 2024

- Subject 101 2022

- Driftwood 2023

- The Legend of Lake Hollow 2024

- Black Mass 2023

- Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2 2023

- The Manifestation 2024

- Spirit Riser 2024

- Garden of Souls 2019

- It's a Wonderful Slice 2024

- Caleb & Sarah 2024

- The Thousand Steps 2020

- The Desiring 2021

- When a Stranger Knocks 2024

- Quint-essentially Irish 2024

- Son of Gacy 2024

- Saltville 2024

- The True Story of the Christ's Return 2024

- Whenever I'm Alone with You 2023

- Jurassic Triangle 2024

- Midnight Peepshow 2022

- Offworld: Alien Planet 2024

- The Swiss Conspiracy 1976

- Sex-Positive 2024

- Here for Blood 2022

- All Over Again 2024

- The Color Yellow 2023

- Des Töchterleins Leid 2024

- I Am a Channel 2024

- The Hermits 2023

- Murdaritaville 2024

- Inheritance 2024

- The Devil's Partner 1960

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Docteur Popaul

Dr. Popaul
Trappola per un Lupo / Play Now, Pay Later / High Heels / Scoundrel in White / Der Halunke / Die Bulldogge

France/Italy 1972
produced by
Georges Casati, André Génovès, Alain Belmondo (executive) for Derito Films, Rizzoli Film, Les Films de la Boétie
directed by Claude Chabrol
starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mia Farrow, Laura Antonelli, Daniel Ivernel, Daniel Lecourtois, Marlène Appelt, Henri Attal, Dominique Zardi, Carlo Bertolotta, Michel Peyrelon, Patrick Préjan, Louis Duranton, Monique Fardoulis, Christophe Merle, Madame Steeg, Catherine Ohotnikoff, Maja Wodecka
screenplay by Paul Gégauff, based on the novel Meutre A Loisir by Hubert Monteilhet, music by Pierre Jansen, art direction by Karl Lagerfeld

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

In Tunesia, medical student Paul Simay (Jean-Paul Belmondo) picks up the rather plain & mousey Christine Dupont (Mia Farrow), & eventually persuades her to let him help her lose her virginity - since he always had a weakness for the not so beautiful women. However, after one night of sin, he sneaks out of her hotelroom, in hopes to never see her again.

Bourdeax, one year later, Paul runs across Christine again, & finds out she is the daughter of Doctor Dupont (Daniel Lecourtois), one of his professors at university, & the owner of a private hospital. For the sake of his career, he dares not dump Christine a second time, & eventually even marries her - & as a consequence, he soon takes over her father's clinic ...

But at their marriage Paul's downfall begins when he lays eyes on Christine's lovely sister Martine (Laura Antonelli), with whom he before long falls in love ... but alas, she is engaged to someone else, & eventually she even marries a simple farmer who loves his tractor more than he could ever love a woman - so it's only fitting that Martine eventually runs him over in his tractor by accident ...

Martine however marries again ... & again, but all her husbands seem to be cursed, as they sem to have little accidents - & too often to be coincidence, Paul has a part in these accidents. Eventually, Marinte falls for his charms, & Paul starts to regularly feed his wife with sleeping pills to sneak over to Martine's (who lives across the street) & shag her. & when that doesn't stop her from bringing home more fiancés, he impregnates her ... now that should do the trick.

Eventually, Martine has the child, but refuses to disclose the identity of the father. Only she & Paul know, and Doctor Bertier (Daniel Ivernel), Paul'S colleague at the hospital ...

Then though Paul has a car accident, & suddenly finds himself a patient in his own hospital, in a casket covering almost his whole body. & the injuries from the accident might very well leave him partially paralyzed for the rest of his life. The Martine receives a letter that Paul was a regular at the local whorehouse, & even though she herself was only his mistress, her jealousy won't let her forgive him. Furthermore, Paul receives news that his & Martine's daughter has died. ...

Paul decides to confess everything to his wife, write a last letter & commit suicide taking poison ... only when the poison already sets in does his wife make her confession: She knew about his affair with Martine all along, & at the same time had an affair with Doc Bertier, who let her in on quite a few secrets about her husband - including the kid he had with Martine. So it's only fair that Bertier in the meantime has impregnated her ... but eventually, Christine & Bertier decided to strike back & ruin him: they made up the whole story about the car accident - which Paul never had, they just crashed his car, him not in it, into a tree while he was sleeping it off & put him into a casket, so upon waking up he was actually believing he had an accident under the influence. then they gave him injections that paralyzed him, wrote MArtine a letter about his visits to the whorehouse & blatantly lied to him about his daughter's death ...

& suddenly Paul realizes he has been had.

In the end, in a  rather unnecessary plottwist, he is saved though.

 

In his time, Claude Chabrol made (& continues to make, actually) some great films, mostly satires about the bourgeoisie disguised as thrillers. Docteur Popaul however is a rather average efforts, it starts out as a light (erotic) comedy, eventually takes a turn towards the macabre (but is rather unoriginal at it, & only in the final quarter of an hour, whent he thriller plot as such finally sets in, does the film actually pack a punch - but unfortunately, that's too little too late - & the happy ending takes much of the films impact, too.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find Dr. Popaul
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find Dr. Popaul here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai

Something naughty?
(Must be over 18 to go there!)

x-rated  find Dr. Popaul at adultvideouniverse.com


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!