In pre-World War I Paris, a brilliant safecracker(Guy Rolfe) is recruited by an admiring adversary, the chief of police (EricPortman), to undertake a dangerous espionage mission. "What starts outseemingly as another Arsène Lupin imitation develops into a far morecomplex, almost Sartre-like melodrama of irony. A handsomely mountedfilm."-William K.Everson