Marcel Carné, director, and Jacques Prévert, writer, dip into Mack Sennett, but they serve up their farce with a surrealist sauce. This French comedy–satire on the English mania for detective fiction is improbably set in Edwardian England-and the English of the film include Jean–Louis Barrault as the detective story reader who decides to commit his own perfect crime by murdering the author (Michel Simon); Louis Jouvet as a clergyman...etc.... For a long time the Americans sinned against the French by buying their movies for remakes and destroying the originals. Now the French are beginning to feed on themselves: this is probably your last chance to look at the 1937 version of Bizarre, Bizarre....It's hard to believe a new version could ever match that cast or recapture the madly improbable atmosphere.