The Killing Game (1967)

Director
Alain Jessua

Main cast
Jean-Pierre Cassel; Claudine Auger; Michel Duchaussoy; Eléonore Hirt

Genres
Comedy, Adventure, Drama

Description
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder.


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