As French has no wild west , the "westerns " are filmed in Camargue; as the gypsies go every year to a pilgrimage to the Saintes -Maries -De -La -Mer (the legend has it that Mary Magdalene and two companions would have landed in this lovely town ), they would play the part of the Indians with gusto. All the more dangerous for the gardians /cowboys that there's a bad guy and a bad girl (Rosy Varte! ) among the gypsies,and to make the matters worse ,there's also a shrewd traitor among the "Whites" .
When she arrives to the mas (farm or ranch in Provence),the new boss , a woman is exposed to the sly comments of her macho cowboys ;but actress Brigitte Auber was a sportswoman, an acrobat ,which would give her an important part in Hitchcock 's "to catch a thief" .The hackneyed trick of the quicksands (scientifically impossible ,she would remain stuck but would not get drowned ) is once more used and no one bothers to fake the Provençal accent!!
When she arrives to the mas (farm or ranch in Provence),the new boss , a woman is exposed to the sly comments of her macho cowboys ;but actress Brigitte Auber was a sportswoman, an acrobat ,which would give her an important part in Hitchcock 's "to catch a thief" .The hackneyed trick of the quicksands (scientifically impossible ,she would remain stuck but would not get drowned ) is once more used and no one bothers to fake the Provençal accent!!