Dr. Popaul

Dr. Popaul is a 1972 French black comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol. also known under the titles High Heels and Scoundrel in White. Based on the 1969 novel Murder at Leisure by Hubert Monteilhet, the film tells the story of an inveterate womaniser who, after marrying an unattractive but rich girl, seduces her prettier sister and has a baby with her. The revenge of his wife is painful and fatal. Plot As a medical student, Paul became celebrated for the conquest of unattractive girls, finding them more satisfying than prettier ones. On holiday in Tunisia he met Christine, a shy young woman with a crippled leg, and took her virginity. Back in France he met her father, owner of a lucrative private clinic, who offered to make him co-director of the clinic if he married Christine. At the wedding he met her beautiful younger sister, Martine, and applied himself to removing all her suitors one by one. He then took to drugging Christine so that he could spend the nights with Martine, who had his baby. He thought he had a happy family of wife, mistress, and child until a mysterious road accident left him crippled for life and emasculated.