Under the cover charge of a traditional detective story, Lavardin confronts himself to a gallery of demented weirdoes, haunting an awesome castle filled with stuffed animals and disturbing sounds. The madness and incongruity that wrapped the previous chapters is in full swing here. Nevertheless and without a doubt, le Château du Pendu is the wildest episode in the miniseries. Very often with made-for-tv movies, the lack of time and money often prevent directors to fully develop their subjects (Chabrol sometimes complained about this handicap in his career) but here, De Chalonge presents a complete, neat work. The two installments made by De Chalonge turn out to be highly superior to l'Escargot Noir and Maux Croisés. After Claude Chabrol, Christian de Chalonge took the reins to put into pictures this ultimate investigation from one of the most originally recognizable cops in French cinema culture and like le Diable en Ville, the result has nothing to envy the two other episodes shot by the author of la Femme Infidèle (1969). Whether he likes or not, Lavardin agrees and settles in the edifice where he notices that the inhabitants display a strange behavious to say the least.
Alas for him, a young woman Bernadette asks him to find her sister Christine who mysteriously disappeared in an imposing castle located in Portugal.
The beginning of the last chapter in the adventures of Jean Lavardin shows the latter in a situation close to holidays: fishing.
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