La Terreur Des Batignolles (aka The Terror Of Batignolles) (1931)

A thief (Boucot Fils) breaks into a home when he thinks its occupants are away for the evening. He's in the middle of robbing them when they (Jean Wall, Germaine Aussey) walk in so he hides behind a curtain where he hears them planning a double suicide pact. Written by Jacques De Baroncelli and directed by Henri Georges Clouzot (LE CORBEAU) in his directorial debut. This short film is an amusing piece of whimsy although one doesn't think of Clouzot as a director of comedy. After all, this is the man who brought us THE WAGES OF FEAR and DIABOLIQUE. Clouzot wouldn't direct another movie all by himself until 1942's L'ASSASSIN HABITE AU 21. It's a piece of well done fluff but basically an archival footnote to the career of one of France's best directors.