- Country: France
- Genres: Drama, Thriller
- Release: 1959-06-17
- Director: Pierre Chenal
- Writers: Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud , Michel Audiard , Pierre Chenal , Day Keene
- Language: French
- Stars: Françoise Arnoul , Henri Vidal , Gaby Sylvia , Agnès Laury , Jean Brochard , Madeleine Barbulée , Harry-Max , Pierre Sergeol , Georges Douking , Albert Dinan
- Runtime: 95 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: O dolofonos tin vrike sto loutro (Greece) , La bête à l'affût (France, French Republic) , Beast at Bay , La bestia al acecho (Mexico) , La bête à l'affût (Belgium) , Vaarallinen salaisuus (Finland) , 爪を磨く野獣 (Japan) , Het Beest Staat Op de Loer (Belgium) , La Venere tascabile (Italy) , Günah yolcusu (Turkey) , Paixão de Assassino (Brazil) , Älskare utan hänsyn (Sweden) , Das Weib und der Verdammte , Das Weib und der Verdammte , La bête à l'affût , Bestia czyha (Poland)
- Plot: A cop's widow is through with love and she spends her time collecting money for the orphans of the Police,abetted by a bunch of snobs and false friends.Unfortunately the person who was in charge of the money is assaulted and the money is gone..Might this respectable notable of the town be guilty,after feigning an aggression? A warden has two inmates do some repairs in his house.But he's got a too pretty wife .Two of the men are killed in mysterious circumstances and the survivor takes refuge in the widow's desirable mansion. Love begins to grow between them but is the man a victim of fate as he claims to be?
- IMDB:tt0052663
Beast at Bay Cast · · · ALL
Pierre Chenal
Director
Françoise Arnoul
Elizabeth Vernoult
Henri Vidal
Daniel Morane
Gaby Sylvia
Gilberte
Jean Brochard
Commissaire François
Madeleine Barbulée
Maria
Harry-Max
Me Doucet, le notaire
Philippe Mareuil
Alain de Beauvier
Pierre Sergeol
Georges Douking
Albert Dinan
Philippe Dumat
Jack Ary
Jacqueline Marbaux
Jean-François Rémi
Lucien Barjon
Gabriel Gobin
Nane Germon
Hubert de Lapparent
Ariane Lancell
Colette Régis
Michel Piccoli
Commissaire Jacques Guimard