Carom Shots

Carom Shots

1963 · 88 min · FR · 6.1 (37 votes)
Dir. Marcel Bluwal · Starring Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Serrault, Louis de Funès, Sophie Daumier, Anne Tonietti, Henri Virlogeux · Music Gérard Calvi
ComedyCrime

Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...

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A darkly comic look at ruthless ambition in the corporate world. It's a cynical, unsettling ride through the cutthroat machinations of a company prioritizing profit over people, wrapped in a mid-century satirical style.

cynicaldarkly comicsatiricalunsettlingsteadymid-century satireblack comedyperiod pieceambitioncorporate greedsocial climbingmoral decay
careerbased on novel or bookblack humorambitionfirm
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