Magnet of Doom
– A young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced t..
A young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.
25 Sep 1963
French, English
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville (adaptation), Jean-Pierre Melville (dialogue), Georges Simenon (novel)
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier, Malvina Silberberg
When French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet looses his last fight he decides to quit boxing. The French banker and businessman Dieudonné Ferchaux is looking for a new personal secretary and bodyguard. The 25 year old ex-paratrooper is perfect for this role and he accepts the job. Because Mr. Ferchaux is in trouble with the French authorities, especially for his tax evasion crimes, he decides to run to America taking his personal secretary and bodyguard with him. After being threatened with extradition from the USA Mr. Ferchaux plans to escape to South America.He carries a vast sum of money with him but his bodyguard Maudet has a few dishonest ideas of his own.