A Scandal in Paris (The Story of Vidocq) (1946)

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¡A surprise! Sirk as stylized as Von Sternberg (Gene Lockhart stumbling with the birdcages in the hat store is a pure delight)and as fine comedian as Wilder or Leisen. Glory to the amoral Vidock, redeemed because of pure comfort, after a great match with Lockhart (besto fo the cast) and the Tamiroff gang. Two twisted femmes, the ingenue Hasso and the fatale Landis.

“If you talk of art, I consider A SCANDAL IN PARIS my best picture,” declared director Douglas Sirk, whose adaptation of the memoirs of François Eugène Vidocq, the elegant thief turned chief of Paris’s police, combines devious wit, melodrama, and romance into sparkling entertainment. George Sanders is at his roguish, debonair best as he climbs from clever criminal through the ranks of early-nineteenth century French society, with seemingly nothing to stop him from the biggest heist of his career . . . except, perhaps, the charms of a young lady.