福尔聂（Claude Mann 饰）只是一介平凡的小小白领，某日，在好友卡隆（Paul Guers 饰）的带领下，他来到了一间赌场想试试运气，哪知道竟然赚得盆满钵满，这飞来横财令福尔聂开始对赌博产生了浓厚的兴趣，甚至不顾父亲的劝说，打算放弃工作，前往大名鼎鼎的天使湾赌场好好干他一票。　　在天使湾赌场，福尔聂邂逅了名为杰基（让娜·莫罗 Jeanne Moreau 饰）的美艳金发女郎，和福尔聂的小试身手不同，杰基将自己的全部都投入到了赌局之中，赌博不仅是她的信仰还是她的生命。随着时间的推移，福尔内和杰基渐渐坠入了情网，当福尔聂对这种数字游戏感到乏味想要回到巴黎继续生活之时，嗜赌如命的杰基陷入了深深的无助之中。

黑白密室偵探片，十個角色，一女九男，其中一個是兇手。「過去我沒聽說過這戲，為了拍《8美千嬌》，我看了一遍，令我獲益良多，對那年代的美國電影瞭解得更清楚。」（奧桑）《Marie-Octobre》很寫實，是齣沉重的電影，拍得一板一眼。奧桑往相反方向走　－　輕鬆、非寫實、七彩、諷刺（人物互相指控而來）。 同類克里斯蒂式偵探片，奧桑較喜歡佳咸美頓（Guy Hamilton：《破鏡奇案》(The Mirror Crack'd)，《午日奇屍》(Evil under the Sun)，還有Sydney Lumet的《東方快車》。《8美千嬌》參照此片最多的是佈景設計，像客廳、書房、睡房、飯廳等。

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Paris, 1315. The Tour de Nesle, a guard tower on the banks of the Seine, has become a symbol of mystery and fear. Each morning, at its base, the bodies of handsome young aristocrats are found floating in the river, all butchered by sword or arrow. One evening, two noblemen, Buridan and Philippe d'Aulnay, find themselves in the infamous tower, lured there on the expectation of a night of unbridled passion. Little do they realise that they are to be the next victims of a woman who is determined to take revenge against all men - Margaret of Burgundy, the present Queen of France. Although Philippe is killed, Buridan escapes, and intends to blackmail the Queen. Unless she makes him her prime minister, he will expose her crimes to Philippe's brother and her husband, King Louis X. When she moves to eliminate Burdan, Margaret makes a terrible discovery...　　In the twilight years of his long and pretty uneven career, the great avant-garde film director Abel Gance made a number of films which, whilst not as grand and artistically inspired as his early silent masterpieces (La Roue (1923), Napoléon (1927)), still compared very favourably with the work of his contemporaries.　　Of these, La Tour de Nesle is a film that still stands up remarkably well today - an ambitious historical drama based on the famous 1832 play by Alexandre Dumas. It makes a nice companion piece to Gance's subsequent historical romp, Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964).　　　　Needless to say, the film isn't to be commended on its historical accuracy. As any historian will tell you, the Alexandre Dumas version of French history is wildly fanciful, to say the least. However, this doesn't prevent La Tour de Nesle from being an entertaining and, at times, highly poignant, piece of cinema.　　Whilst the characterisation and dialogue leave much to be desired, the plot (a murky tale of cruel revenge and political intrigue) is gripping, and the film's artistic design is exceptional for a film of this period. Gance brings a strangely expressionistic touch to his use of colour and shade, something which adds to the darkly sinister nature of the plot, whilst imbuing the film with a striking sense of historical realism. A propos, Gance's assistant director Nelly Kaplan makes her screen début in a small role, shortly before she herself embarked on a successful film making career.