An Ace and Four Queens
(00:00) THE INTERROGATION It's 11:03 p.m., a dark and rainy night, when a dark car stops with the headlights on. Inside, three men are waiting for something: Jesus ('GUY DELORME' (qv)), in a dark brow…
An Ace and Four Queens
(00:00) THE INTERROGATION It's 11:03 p.m., a dark and rainy night, when a dark car stops with the headlights on. Inside, three men are waiting for something: Jesus ('GUY DELORME' (qv)), in a dark brown overcoat, plays cards by himself; Adams ('Henri Lambert' (qv)), in a beige trench-coat, says he wishes to eat ossobucco [marrowbone, Italian cuisine specialty] as he verifies the mechanism of a pistol with silencer; the Driver ('Lionel Vitrant' (qv)) in a white trench-coat, tells them to be quite, and keeps looking at his wrist-watch. [The credits roll on.] At 11:05 p.m. sharp, the men leave the car leaving the motor running, and walk away. At a police station, the Photographer ('Michel Vocoret ' (qv)) takes a photo of suspect #75161. One negative falls to the floor, and the Detective ('Jean-Pierre Darras' (qv)) in charge of the interrogation asks for another one, the fifth. The suspect identifies himself as Hakim Gregory ('François Maistre' (qv)) and keeps very calm, possibly from hearing the Deputy Detective reporting that the raid on Gregory's loft had not furnished further evidence. An Accomplice ('Paul Pavel' (qv)) is being interrogated at the next room by the Deputy Detective. Suddenly, the three men from the car are inside the police station, armed with silencer guns, and killing swiftly the unsuspecting police photographer and detectives. Then, on a sign by Gregory, Jésus shoots down their Accomplice. Gregory erases his fingerprints and destroys the statement he had signed (though Gregory is only a pseudonym). On their way out, they pass by the body of a uniformed policeman, as Lafleur, another uniformed policemen who had opened the door for them, escorts them to the door. Then, after saying good-bye to Lafleur, Jésus shoots him, too, point blank. (06:00) THE ESCAPE Gregory and his three henchmen are going to Spain in his car. Gregory is displeased when he notices that Adams missed the fifth photo in the photographer's camera. That fifth photo is processed and shown at a meeting by Senior Police Officer Marvier ('Henri Crémieux' (qv)) to a Government Official ('Michel Duplaix' (qv)) who wants to know exactly who Gregory is. Gregory's CV represents 12 kilos of reports: among other cases, Embassy at Ankara, a terrorist attack, arms trafficking in China, bomb hidden in a piano of an African minister, abduction of an Albanian general, and the day before, six killings at the police station. With Marvier, there are three agents present. (09:00) In Spain, at Gregory's farm, the Doctor who had conducted a facial surgery on Gregory two weeks before, is satisfied with his work, but adjourns the lifting of the bandages yet for one day. Dolores Arrabal ('Sylva Koscina' (qv)), on a signal from Gregory, hands him two wads of bankotes, one for the surgery, and the other for his silence. Gregory takes a pistol from the pocket of his pajamas, hands it to Pablo Gomez ('FRANCISCO PIQUER' (qv)), and motions him to kill the Doctor. Reluctantly, Gomez obeys. Gregory is not speaking, due to his operation, but he writes a note to Dolores, enquiring about Cervantès. (10:20) At the Hotel Al-Andalus, Torremolinos (Malaga, Spain), the Hotel Manager hands the key to a new customer - one of Marvier's agents - and answers that he does not know the person in the photograph he is shown. The Manager makes a phone call, and as soon as the agent enters his room, he is slain by a man with a razor-blade. Marvier keeps very calm, and sends a second agent to Torremolinos, warning him not to be confounded by the simplest problem. [A play on words in French: "il ne faut pas se noyer dans un verre d'eau", as the agent is found murdered soon after in a cemetery, drowned in a cask of water.] A third agent is following Dolores and Gomez' steps in Malaga, and is shot dead on the street by a gun with silencer before he can send in his report to Marvier. Marvier keeps calm, but his Superior Officer remarks that the inquest has already attained a high degree of casualties. He gives him a fornight to solve the case, or his position will be at risk. (12:25) THE MISSION Daniel Layton ('Roger Hanin' (qv)) is in bed kissing his fiancée, Marion ('Catherine Allégret' (qv)). He complains that she's leaving in a hurry, to attend to her bus load of old spinsters and widows waiting for her, their tour guide. He receives a call from his chief, giving him a rendez-vous, and now it's him who hurries out of bed. Marion asks him when will they get married, and he dodges the question. Then, she menaces him that if he is not at home, waiting for her faithfully, when she returns in a fornight, she will beat him up, hard. Layton takes a hike in the tourist bus to arrive quickly at his destination. The American Tourist ('Olga Valéry' (qv)) sitting next to Layton in the bus asks him the name of the river, and - since he does not speak English - he tells her,"It's the French Tamise [sic]." As they pass in front of Les Invalides, Layton spreads confusion between Napoléon's tomb, and the cognac... He kisses Marion good-bye and enters a shop - as he hides from her his true profession of secret agent - and next he goes to the rendez-vos he had been given by phone. At one exhibition room of weapons and uniforms of Les Invalides, Layton meets with his contact, Petula Menendez ('Dominique Wilms' (qv)). She tells him they are going to Malaga, and he asks why he has been selected. Petula replies quickly, without details: "Because B-14, B-15, and B-16 are not available." Layton enquires, with pity: "Are they ill?" Petula, dispationately: "B-14 with a slit throat, B-15 drowned, and B-16 stabbed." - "And what will be my code number?" - "B-17." The objective is "Gregory - spy, sadist, and murderer." A Man With a Cigarette Off ('Serge Gainsbourg' (qv)) interrupts, asking Layton for a lighter. After the man goes, Layton says to Petulia, "If we were in a spy movie, this one would play the traitor." Petula tells him quickly about details of their journey. He asks if they are going on a holliday. "No, as tourists," she says without a smile. "My name is Petula Menendez, a rich heiress, and I'll be paying for you. You're my playboy." Layton does not seem happy at the prospect, and asks what will happen if Gregory kills him. "No problem. You'll be replaced by a subtitute - everything has been accounted for." (17:30) SPAIN In Spain, the odd couple drives south in a convertible, and Layton does not seem fond of Petula's other companion, Alexandre - her pekinois pet. Suddenly, Petula stops the car and kisses Layton passionately - to try it, she explains after. The kiss was watched by a Man with a Donkey, either for the surprise effect, or because he was expecting the car to pass... Petulia kept driving to Torremolinos. Marion is distributing the passports after the tourists' check in at the hotel, and wishing them a calm stay in town... Marion sees Daniel picking up Alexander from the floor in the lobby, as the doors of the lift close, but when she manages to stop the lift and goes down to check, he his gone already. Marion and Daniel are given room 330, and Daniel stays at the door, tipping the two boys and the two maids who carried their luggage, and the four bow and thank Marion inside the room, without turning their eyes to Layton... Petula speaks words of passion to Layton, as she inspects the room for hidden microphones, and finds none. His time to impress her, going to the bathroom and finding quickly a microphone hidden in the mains box. They hear a knock on the door, and hurry to the bedroom, where Petula makes a big play of hugging, and kissing him on a couch - as the knocks on the door become more insistent. "Come in!" commands Petula, expecting a hotel maid. (21:35) Instead, it's Marion, in her skirt and white shirt uniform, in a fit of jealousy. Petulia, still her heel shoes and sleeveless, low cut red top and trousers, does not stop the kiss, but Layton has turned his head to the door, sees his fiancée, and says, "What a wonderful surprise!" Petula stands up in a hurry, but Marion slugs the surprised blonde, knocking her to the floor. Her second punch is a right to Layton's jaw. Marion tries to hit him with decoration objects in the room, and misses. Petula takes off her shoes, shoves Marion onto her back, and prepared to jump on her. Marion stands up swiftly, head butts Petula who falls back and rolls sideways, so not to take Marion who attempted to body slam her down. Even so, Marion throws a right-left combination of punches to good effect. Petula answers with a punch to the stomach, and then a nose lock, throwing Marion aside by that rare wrestling hold. Petula applies a arm lock on Marion's right arm, forcing her to scream in pain. When Marion's arm is at breaking point, Layton orders, "Break!" He helps both girls up, and says, "Now I notice that I've not introduced you to each other." Both girls deliver punches to his jaw, he goes down again, and they procceed their fight. Marion punches Petula, and hides in the bathroom, closing the sliding door. In her haste, Petula punches the door instead of Marion. Marion jigs around, with muffled screams of pain, while Layton sits on the coach, smoking a cigarette, making small talk with her about the weather. A bellboy enters the room with a tray with their breakfast, and is knocked to his knees with a karate chop to the neck delivered by Marion - who expected Petulia to be standing in front of the bathroom door. Layton takes the tray from the bellboy's hands and tells him to be at ease... which he does, falling asleep on the rug. Petulia throws a good punch to Marion, who escapes into the corridor by the door left open by the bellboy. In the corridor, the women trade punches, attracting the attention of some tourists, and the Man in Room 332, who comes to the door, topless and holding a shaving blade - the killer of B-14, B-15, and B-16... He locks eyes with Layton for a moment. Layton grabs both girls by the scruff of their necks, pleading with them to stop the fight, and not to further wake up the people's attentions. Their answer is to deliver simultaneous punches to Layton's stomach, winding him, and then getting at each other again. They made it to the floor's lift lobby and start strangling each other, followed by the tourists coming from the forth floor by the staircase. A pair of tourists manage to separate the two wildcats. Layton approaches them, kisses Marion lightly on the lips, and asks, "Apart from this, are there any news?" Layton whistles, and goes away, but before he does, Marion says, with a tone of finality, "Layton... good-bye!" Petula makes a scene to Layton, and throws him out of the door. The Man in Room 332, now impeccably shaved and dressed, comes out again, menacing Layton. Using the noises of the women tourists as an excuse, Layton picks up his suit case and runs down the stairs to the main lobby. He calls Marion at her room, but she hangs him off. Marion regrets it, and tries to call him back, but it's too late - he left the hotel with his luggage. (26:50) Layton tries to find a Enrique Manega at a small pension in the town's old district. The Spanish Landlady ('Renée Gardès' (qv), 80-year-old) sends him up the stairs (no lift) without paying him any attention. Layton goes up, and tries the doors; the first that is open gives to a room, where there is a redhead standing on a chair, wearing black heels and a screaming red dress. "I'm Rosário," ('LAURA VALENZUELA' (qv)), she presents herself. She shows him an empty room where he can stay, which happens to be next door to hers. (28:30) POKER GAME Next, after a whisky at the pention's bar, Layton enters a private room, just beyond a green curtain, where a game of poker is in progress. Back to the door, a Poker Player in a Brown Suit ('Sylvain Levignac' (qv)), and to his right [counterclockwise] Manuel, a Poker Player with Pox Face ('Rico Lopez '), a Bald Poker Player, and a Poker.Player with a Cigarillo ('Michel Charrel ' (qv)). Before Layton entered, Rosário practically forced the bald player to stay, and risk his last banknote, and now Layton noticed that Rosário, standing behind him, made signs to the man smoking a cigar about the sort of cards he had. Layton plays several winning hands, and then as the bets grew in value, and Rosário kept behind him caressing his shoulders, he lost. He says he only has some French money - as the table was accepting US Dollars only - but that was no problem. The man in the brown suit picks up a small iron box from a drawer, and lends Layton some more American money. They play, Dolorès makes the conventional signs, and to the men's and Dolorès' surprise, Layton wins by producing an unexpected Queen in his hand... He picks up the money to leave, pretexting he has to a consultation with his doctor, and two of the men accuse him of being a cheater. Calmly, Layton says he is being insulted, and he must beat them. The man of the pox face pulls a flickblade, and Layton overturns the samll poker table. A fist fight follows between him and the men, and when the man with the flickblade was about to cut Layton's throat, he is stopped by Enrique Manega ('José Jaspe' (qv)). The three crooks leave unhappy, and one gives Layton the money they had already taken from him. Layton asks his old friend from the French Legion, about Dolorès, pretexting his interest is just that of a man for a pretty woman. He knows her, and even his current companion, and where they are staying, in a cattle raising farm in the Sierra Nevada. (34:50) DOLORES That same evening, Layton breaks into Dolorès fashion design boutique, and inspects her safe, without finding anything of interest. He was about to leave when a Night-guard ('Jean Minisini' (qv)) comes in, aparently a guard, and he has to fight him and knock him out to escape. Suddenly, Layton decides to get back to the room with the safe, re-opens it, takes some paper money, and throws documents around, to give the impression that a real burglar had been in there. Through the curtained window, he can see Dolorès Arrabal in the opposit window, talking with a man. Layton gets out from the fashion boutique by the window, while Dolorès and her brother Pablo are having a discussion and an exchange of slaps, because of his tendency to drink too much. He says, "I drink because of you, or thanks to you... I don't know any more if I drink to kill, or if I kill to drink." The clock chimes eleven. He asks her for money, as he intends to leave the country and be... a football player! She hands him a large stash of banknotes, but he demands no less than five million. He knows her companion, Mishra, can afford it. Layton follows Pablo in the street, without noticing that he is being followed in turn by Rosário. Dolorès calls Mishra, and tells him what happened. Layton follows Pablo, as he visits bars with music, first a Caribbean bar, then a Flamenco one, where he talks briefly with a Blonde Dancer ('Elisa Montés' (qv)?), and last a piano bar. Layton fails to rob an object that belongs to Mishra, and with which Pablo is making the extortion for the five millions at the last bar, and keeps following him - to the Ascencion Hotel, linked to the bar Don Quijote, where a girl is singing to the sound of guitars. Pablo picks up a fight with a couple of customers, and is bounced out to the street. layton is there, offering a hand to lift him up, and to pick the object from Pablo's pocket without him noticing. Pablo opens his room at the hotel and puts the light on - and sees his sister, Misrah Petrich ('Luis Peña' (qv)), Jésus, Adams, and Gregory's Driver waiting for him. he tries to escape, but Adams catches him and brings him inside the room. Mishra slaps him, and then gives him the good evening salute. Mishra demands the piece that belongs to him, and Pablo Gomez, not knowing he has been robbed, keeps demanding the five millions. After a couple of hard punches to the stomach, he decides to give the thing to Mishra - only to discover he has been robbed. Beignard stays alone with Gomez, while in his room Layton puzzles over the valuable thing he has unwrapped: a set of false teeth! On one of the plates, it's inscribed, "Cervantès XXVI". There was also a dental X-ray marked "18 VIII 65". He hides the little clutch bag with both items in a decorative copper vessel in the corridor, just when Rosàrio is leaving the common bathroom dressed in a towell, walking on naked feet to her room. He asks to play a game of cards with her, but she discourages him, and closes the door behind her. She was already getting naked when Layton enters the room, saying he supposed it was his, but talking of the hot evening, he starts undressing too. Rosario does not seem concerned that he is nude in her bed... (52:00) THE DENTURE Next morning, Layton pays a visit at Dr. Cervantès, the dentist. He rings several times, but without waiting for someone to open the door, he prepares to break him. To his surprise, Dolores Arrabal opens the door, dressed as a nurse. Judging from the dust on the furniture and sofas, the sitting room has not been used or maintained for a long time. He goes out looking for the nurse, and finds she is gone; also, the dentist's cabinet is covered by cobwebs. He goes through the cabinet's files without noticing anything. Leaving the building, at the inner patio, he crosses Cervantès Landlady, and she informs him that the doctor had died of an accident: he had had a very close shave! Meanwhile, Dolores Arrabal had been inside a plasterer shop, waiting to see Layton leave the premises, before taking her sports car, and driving away. (54:30) At his room, Pablo wakes up gagged, and tortured by his guardian, Beignard. Jésus and Adams give him a little of the rests of their breakfast. Layton was waiting in the corridor, and using the surprise effect, he punches both henchmen and gets inside the room. The fist fight takes long, and the furniture is being demlished when some body blows or kicks miss. In the car, Beignard looks at his wrist watch, in his impeccable driver uniform - until he decides to go up and see what's causing the delay. Layton knocks out Jésus, hears the last words of Pablo Gomez - that Hakim Gregory has changed his face - befor ehe dies of his night of torture, and is attacked again by Adams, whom he throws off a balcony to a back entry several floors below, to his death. Beignard sees Adams body, and hides, in time to see Layton step down. Beignard informs Mishra of Gomez' death, while Layton searches for Manega again. Misrah orders his driver not to tell Dolores that her brother has died, as he intends to tell her that in a couple of days that he went to France. Dolores enters the room with a handful of white calla lillies (possibly in preparation to her wedding with Mishra) and her fiancé asks her about the man she had come across at the dentist's office. Mishra says that Layton must be killed, and Beignard - looking through a false mirror - tells him that Layton is visiting the fashion house right now. GIFTS In fact, Layton has escorted Rosario to the ready-made fashion shop, and she is trying a yellow dress under the attentive eyes of a Female Attendant ('Anna Gaylor' (qv)). He keeps adding dresses to his order, and the shop attendants are delighted - as is Dolores, on the other side of the fake mirror. He says he is paying cash, and puts the denture on the accountant's desk. Dolores appears as if by magic in the room, followed shortly by Mishra. After exchanging some words, Layton leaves with Rosario, leaving the denture in Mishra's hands. Their taxi is followed by a car with two of Mishra's men, one in a brown jacket, the other in a blue jacket ('Fred Williams' (qv)). RESTAURANT Layton takes Rosario to a scenic restaurant, and orders pricy food and drinks. He sees the two men who were tailing him sit at another table, and takes leave from his companion to make a phone call to Malaga. As Layton closes the phone booth door behind him, Marion arrives in front of the door, unhappy to find the phone occupied again. Layton leaves the phone booth, and both lovers are mesmerized to come across each other, again. She seems about to make another scene, but she's forgotten, jumps into his lap, full of joy. Three of the American tourists see them, and join in their happiness. He explains that the woman she had seen him with had tried to abuse him, and he had never seen her before... Marion is a practical girl, asks him if he had had luch already, which he says, "No..." and promptly, she drags him by the hand into the adjoining room set to serve lunch to the tour group. The Chef is awfully surprised to see the same man sitting at the veranda with one woman, now inside, ordering a new luch at the tour guide's table. Layton invents a story of an accident, and the insirance company he works for, sending him to Malaga to make the insurance survey. Marion speaks of children, marriage, and Chinese sex, and Layton is only eager to escape to the terrace, and re-join Dolores. He does so, after ordering the wine. He prepares a sandwich for her to take with her, tells her she is in a great danger, and tells her to run away quickly. She does, but first she wants a kiss. As they kiss, Marion is watching them from the bay-window. He gets back to Marion, who is preparing a sandwich for herself, and leaves him at the table, taking her tourists with her. Again he tries to reason with Marion, but she delivers one of her right punches to the jaw, and Layton flies over the handrail, and falls on the floor below, on a bed of shrubs. His jaw hurts, but Layton makes it to a table where Dolores is having a frizzy drink. She shows him a pistol, and orders him to put his hands behind his head. Meanwhile, Marion is commanding her tourists like an army sergeant, conveying them into the bus. But then, Marion sees the two men gagging and grabbing Rosario, and forcing her into a closed van. Marion decides to investigate, hiding between the cars parked in front of the restaurant, and sees Layton taking the driver's place in Dolores' sports car, with yet this other woman at his side. PRISONER Marion orders the tour bus driver to follow the green sports car, which is following the van taking Rosario prisoner, and the three vehicles go at a considerable speed through a scenic by dangerous mountain road, with plenty of U bends. By stopping the car suddenly in front of Malaga's cathedral, Layton manages to take Dolores' pistol, and reverse the situation... only to impose her to have a whisky with him, and talk things over. Layton drives to Dolores' apartment downtown, stops in a narrow street - thus blocking the passage of the tour bus that was still following them. Marion sees Dolores closing the blinds of the bay window, and mounts the stairs quickly. Just in time to find Layton kissing Dolores, to settle their armistice... Layton prtends to be an associate of Mr. Gomez, and is demanding 10 millions for the two X-rays he pretends to have. While they were discussing, Jésus comes behind Layton and knocks him out with a truncheon. Jésus and the two henchmen of Misha drug Layton, and take him to the van, and they go back up the dwindling road, again followed by Dolores, alone in her sports car... Unawares that Marion had got inside the van, and is now making a declaration of love to Layton, deeply asleep. Marion is not perceived, because she had been hiding between rows of clothes inside the van - property of Dolores Arrabal's fashion house. Layton is revived at Misha's "finca" (ranch), and he repeats his deal proposition to Mishra. Layton, keeping a conversation tone, tells that Gomez is dead - thus upsetting Dolores who was listening to their dialogue. Dolores runs away from the passageway overlooking a training bull fight arena, angry. Mishra excites a bull for a minute, then asks for Miguel ('Henri Guégan' (qv)) - the man in the brown jacket, who brings him Rosario, her hands tied behind her back. Under the menace of seeing Rosario thrown down to the bull's horns, Layton says where he has hidden the X-rays, and Mishra spares the girl. Jésus picks the van to go to Torremolinos, as Marion is hiding on top of the van. At the country mansion, Rosario overhears a conversation between Mishra and someone else, and Mishra is receiving orders to kills both Layton and the girl. Marion stood hidden at the "garage", but discovers she is in a bulls' stable instead, and screams. Her scream calls the attention of the third henchman, wearing a blue jacket with a little mustach ('Antoine Baud' (qv)), just as Dolores is trying to get out of the house unobserved. The henchman misses her, and Dolores gets to the haystack where Layton is. They discuss his, and her situation: he claims not to be a secret agent, she claims her only crime is to have fallen in love with Mishra. (79:50) Dolores has untied half of Layton's bonds, when she decides to kiss him - just when Marion had managed to find her way in to the hayloft. Marion charges across the stable like an arena bull, kicks Layton to the chest as he pretended to explain everything to her, and and launches herself into the surprised Dolores, flooring her with a single punch. Both women are in knee length dresses and nylons and high-heel shoes. Layton, who is caught between dodging her fury and further loosening his wrists, can't do much. The scorned woman throws punches on Dolores, who grabs her arms, and they roll on the hay, literally, first one and then the other on top. At one point Marion is kneeling over Dolores, holding her powerfully. This gives Dolores a few seconds respite, needed to stand up and tangle again with Marion. Two villains enter, and Marion leaves Dolores alone, and fist fights with Miguel Dolores starts also to fight Manuel. The women seem to be winning, when Mishra arrives with a third man. Manuel collapses from the after effect of a punch by Dolores. (81:00) REINFORCEMENTS Dolores tells Mishra that she has told Layton who he is, and he slaps her hard. Shots are heard, and Manuel crashes through the partition wall into the hayloft. Marion attacks the man with mustach, and Layton uses his free legs to disarm Mishra who was holding a pistol. Then, Layton controls another henchman who comes in with a non lit cigarette ('Antoine Baud' (qv)). Enrique Manega enters, with a Luger in hand. Followed by Petula, who jumps down from a window. Petula is dressed in a black trousers and a chequered cap. She addresses Mishra, poiunts a pistol at him, and gives him an order of prison... using the name of Hakim Gregory. Next, Petula goes to Layton, brushing the hay off his coat and caressing his bruised cheek... Marion looks at her in amazement. She, Marion, is his steady lover, after all, not this woman, again! She rushes at Petula, tackles her bodily, and they both tumble onto a pile of hay in a frenzied wrestling. She still manages to punch Layton again. Mishra uses the confusion to hit the plainclothes officer that came in with Petula, and Dolores and Manega fight the two henchmen. Mishra manages to escape from the loft using one of the windows. (82:10) At the mansion, Beignard always very composed, is taken valuables from a safe into a large hand bag. Mishrah comes in, and adresses the driver respectfully, saying the airplane is ready for their escape. Beignard - revealed as the gang leader - complains that he has not done a good job, as he made the dentist disappear, but not the denture mold, and shoots him point blank. In the hayloft, where a fire has started, the fistfights go on. A henchman is thrown down onto the bulls' stable, arousing the animals. Beignard takes the driver seat of the van, but Logan sees him in time to stop the van driving away by throwing an object with nails onto his path. Beignard loses control of the van, and crashes into the barn. He keeps shooting at Layton, who dodges and hides, finally into a pigsty. When beignard runs out of bullets, they fight hand to hand. Beignard uses a long fork to attack Layton, but eventually the fire damage to the barn's structure forces him to run away. Layton catches up with him at the passegeway overlooking the bull fight arena, and they fight again hand to hand. Eventually, Beignard falls to the arena, presumably to be butchered by the bull. (86:15) By a KO'ed henchman, Marion and Dolores, all messed up and with faces tarnished by the fire's smut, are sitting and discussing events together, like old friends. In the next division, Petula is dressing up a wound on Rosario's leg. (86:25) At the Torremolinos hotel, Daniel Layton tries to evade an encounter with Petula, who absolutly wants to meet him to discuss how to bring Hakim Gregory to the French authorities. He tells her he will take care of everything, and jumps out of his room's balcony. When passing the lobby, he is intercepted by Dolores, who had been waiting for him, but he manages to escape her, too. Outside, Rosario was waiting at the car park, but the resourseful Layton manages to start his car and drive away unseen. (88:45) IN THE BUS Layton passes the frontier back to France. In front of him, the tour bus is returning from its adventurous tour in Spain. The bus uses a large passage to give way to Layton's car, who passes, and stops in front of it. He goes into the bus, to kiss his fiancee, amidst the happy chorus of the old tourists. Then, Layton checks with Miss Parker, on the last row of the bus - the "lady" next to her is not chanting, and is in a deep sleep: it's Beignard in women's clothes. Layton exclaims, "I love Miss Parker!" Promptly, Marion is about to run to the back of the bus and start another catfight, but she thinks better, and the couple kisses, at... THE END
An Ace and Four Queens
Action,Drama
Film Details
(00:00) THE INTERROGATION It's 11:03 p.m., a dark and rainy night, when a dark car stops with the headlights on. Inside, three men are waiting for something: Jesus ('GUY DELORME' (qv)), in a dark brown overcoat, plays cards by himself; Adams ('Henri Lambert' (qv)), in a beige trench-coat, says he wishes to eat ossobucco [marrowbone, Italian cuisine specialty] as he verifies the mechanism of a pistol with silencer; the Driver ('Lionel Vitrant' (qv)) in a white trench-coat, tells them to be quite, and keeps looking at his wrist-watch. [The credits roll on.] At 11:05 p.m.
sharp, the men leave the car leaving the motor running, and walk away. At a police station, the Photographer ('Michel Vocoret ' (qv)) takes a photo of suspect #75161. One negative falls to the floor, and the Detective ('Jean-Pierre Darras' (qv)) in charge of the interrogation asks for another one, the fifth.
The suspect identifies himself as Hakim Gregory ('François Maistre' (qv)) and keeps very calm, possibly from hearing the Deputy Detective reporting that the raid on Gregory's loft had not furnished further evidence. An Accomplice ('Paul Pavel' (qv)) is being interrogated at the next room by the Deputy Detective. Suddenly, the three men from the car are inside the police station, armed with silencer guns, and killing swiftly the unsuspecting police photographer and detectives.
Then, on a sign by Gregory, Jésus shoots down their Accomplice. Gregory erases his fingerprints and destroys the statement he had signed (though Gregory is only a pseudonym). On their way out, they pass by the body of a uniformed policeman, as Lafleur, another uniformed policemen who had opened the door for them, escorts them to the door.
Then, after saying good-bye to Lafleur, Jésus shoots him, too, point blank. (06:00) THE ESCAPE Gregory and his three henchmen are going to Spain in his car. Gregory is displeased when he notices that Adams missed the fifth photo in the photographer's camera.
That fifth photo is processed and shown at a meeting by Senior Police Officer Marvier ('Henri Crémieux' (qv)) to a Government Official ('Michel Duplaix' (qv)) who wants to know exactly who Gregory is. Gregory's CV represents 12 kilos of reports: among other cases, Embassy at Ankara, a terrorist attack, arms trafficking in China, bomb hidden in a piano of an African minister, abduction of an Albanian general, and the day before, six killings at the police station. With Marvier, there are three agents present.
(09:00) In Spain, at Gregory's farm, the Doctor who had conducted a facial surgery on Gregory two weeks before, is satisfied with his work, but adjourns the lifting of the bandages yet for one day. Dolores Arrabal ('Sylva Koscina' (qv)), on a signal from Gregory, hands him two wads of bankotes, one for the surgery, and the other for his silence. Gregory takes a pistol from the pocket of his pajamas, hands it to Pablo Gomez ('FRANCISCO PIQUER' (qv)), and motions him to kill the Doctor.
Reluctantly, Gomez obeys. Gregory is not speaking, due to his operation, but he writes a note to Dolores, enquiring about Cervantès. (10:20) At the Hotel Al-Andalus, Torremolinos (Malaga, Spain), the Hotel Manager hands the key to a new customer - one of Marvier's agents - and answers that he does not know the person in the photograph he is shown.
The Manager makes a phone call, and as soon as the agent enters his room, he is slain by a man with a razor-blade. Marvier keeps very calm, and sends a second agent to Torremolinos, warning him not to be confounded by the simplest problem. [A play on words in French: "il ne faut pas se noyer dans un verre d'eau", as the agent is found murdered soon after in a cemetery, drowned in a cask of water.] A third agent is following Dolores and Gomez' steps in Malaga, and is shot dead on the street by a gun with silencer before he can send in his report to Marvier.
Marvier keeps calm, but his Superior Officer remarks that the inquest has already attained a high degree of casualties. He gives him a fornight to solve the case, or his position will be at risk. (12:25) THE MISSION Daniel Layton ('Roger Hanin' (qv)) is in bed kissing his fiancée, Marion ('Catherine Allégret' (qv)).
He complains that she's leaving in a hurry, to attend to her bus load of old spinsters and widows waiting for her, their tour guide. He receives a call from his chief, giving him a rendez-vous, and now it's him who hurries out of bed. Marion asks him when will they get married, and he dodges the question.
Then, she menaces him that if he is not at home, waiting for her faithfully, when she returns in a fornight, she will beat him up, hard. Layton takes a hike in the tourist bus to arrive quickly at his destination. The American Tourist ('Olga Valéry' (qv)) sitting next to Layton in the bus asks him the name of the river, and - since he does not speak English - he tells her,"It's the French Tamise [sic]." As they pass in front of Les Invalides, Layton spreads confusion between Napoléon's tomb, and the cognac...
He kisses Marion good-bye and enters a shop - as he hides from her his true profession of secret agent - and next he goes to the rendez-vos he had been given by phone. At one exhibition room of weapons and uniforms of Les Invalides, Layton meets with his contact, Petula Menendez ('Dominique Wilms' (qv)). She tells him they are going to Malaga, and he asks why he has been selected.
Petula replies quickly, without details: "Because B-14, B-15, and B-16 are not available." Layton enquires, with pity: "Are they ill?" Petula, dispationately: "B-14 with a slit throat, B-15 drowned, and B-16 stabbed." - "And what will be my code number?" - "B-17." The objective is "Gregory - spy, sadist, and murderer." A Man With a Cigarette Off ('Serge Gainsbourg' (qv)) interrupts, asking Layton for a lighter. After the man goes, Layton says to Petulia, "If we were in a spy movie, this one would play the traitor." Petula tells him quickly about details of their journey. He asks if they are going on a holliday.
"No, as tourists," she says without a smile. "My name is Petula Menendez, a rich heiress, and I'll be paying for you. You're my playboy." Layton does not seem happy at the prospect, and asks what will happen if Gregory kills him.
"No problem. You'll be replaced by a subtitute - everything has been accounted for." (17:30) SPAIN In Spain, the odd couple drives south in a convertible, and Layton does not seem fond of Petula's other companion, Alexandre - her pekinois pet. Suddenly, Petula stops the car and kisses Layton passionately - to try it, she explains after.
The kiss was watched by a Man with a Donkey, either for the surprise effect, or because he was expecting the car to pass... Petulia kept driving to Torremolinos. Marion is distributing the passports after the tourists' check in at the hotel, and wishing them a calm stay in town...
Marion sees Daniel picking up Alexander from the floor in the lobby, as the doors of the lift close, but when she manages to stop the lift and goes down to check, he his gone already. Marion and Daniel are given room 330, and Daniel stays at the door, tipping the two boys and the two maids who carried their luggage, and the four bow and thank Marion inside the room, without turning their eyes to Layton... Petula speaks words of passion to Layton, as she inspects the room for hidden microphones, and finds none.
His time to impress her, going to the bathroom and finding quickly a microphone hidden in the mains box. They hear a knock on the door, and hurry to the bedroom, where Petula makes a big play of hugging, and kissing him on a couch - as the knocks on the door become more insistent. "Come in!" commands Petula, expecting a hotel maid.
(21:35) Instead, it's Marion, in her skirt and white shirt uniform, in a fit of jealousy. Petulia, still her heel shoes and sleeveless, low cut red top and trousers, does not stop the kiss, but Layton has turned his head to the door, sees his fiancée, and says, "What a wonderful surprise!" Petula stands up in a hurry, but Marion slugs the surprised blonde, knocking her to the floor. Her second punch is a right to Layton's jaw.
Marion tries to hit him with decoration objects in the room, and misses. Petula takes off her shoes, shoves Marion onto her back, and prepared to jump on her. Marion stands up swiftly, head butts Petula who falls back and rolls sideways, so not to take Marion who attempted to body slam her down.
Even so, Marion throws a right-left combination of punches to good effect. Petula answers with a punch to the stomach, and then a nose lock, throwing Marion aside by that rare wrestling hold. Petula applies a arm lock on Marion's right arm, forcing her to scream in pain.
When Marion's arm is at breaking point, Layton orders, "Break!" He helps both girls up, and says, "Now I notice that I've not introduced you to each other." Both girls deliver punches to his jaw, he goes down again, and they procceed their fight. Marion punches Petula, and hides in the bathroom, closing the sliding door. In her haste, Petula punches the door instead of Marion.
Marion jigs around, with muffled screams of pain, while Layton sits on the coach, smoking a cigarette, making small talk with her about the weather. A bellboy enters the room with a tray with their breakfast, and is knocked to his knees with a karate chop to the neck delivered by Marion - who expected Petulia to be standing in front of the bathroom door. Layton takes the tray from the bellboy's hands and tells him to be at ease...
which he does, falling asleep on the rug. Petulia throws a good punch to Marion, who escapes into the corridor by the door left open by the bellboy. In the corridor, the women trade punches, attracting the attention of some tourists, and the Man in Room 332, who comes to the door, topless and holding a shaving blade - the killer of B-14, B-15, and B-16...
He locks eyes with Layton for a moment. Layton grabs both girls by the scruff of their necks, pleading with them to stop the fight, and not to further wake up the people's attentions. Their answer is to deliver simultaneous punches to Layton's stomach, winding him, and then getting at each other again.
They made it to the floor's lift lobby and start strangling each other, followed by the tourists coming from the forth floor by the staircase. A pair of tourists manage to separate the two wildcats. Layton approaches them, kisses Marion lightly on the lips, and asks, "Apart from this, are there any news?" Layton whistles, and goes away, but before he does, Marion says, with a tone of finality, "Layton...
good-bye!" Petula makes a scene to Layton, and throws him out of the door. The Man in Room 332, now impeccably shaved and dressed, comes out again, menacing Layton. Using the noises of the women tourists as an excuse, Layton picks up his suit case and runs down the stairs to the main lobby.
He calls Marion at her room, but she hangs him off. Marion regrets it, and tries to call him back, but it's too late - he left the hotel with his luggage. (26:50) Layton tries to find a Enrique Manega at a small pension in the town's old district.
The Spanish Landlady ('Renée Gardès' (qv), 80-year-old) sends him up the stairs (no lift) without paying him any attention. Layton goes up, and tries the doors; the first that is open gives to a room, where there is a redhead standing on a chair, wearing black heels and a screaming red dress. "I'm Rosário," ('LAURA VALENZUELA' (qv)), she presents herself.
She shows him an empty room where he can stay, which happens to be next door to hers. (28:30) POKER GAME Next, after a whisky at the pention's bar, Layton enters a private room, just beyond a green curtain, where a game of poker is in progress. Back to the door, a Poker Player in a Brown Suit ('Sylvain Levignac' (qv)), and to his right [counterclockwise] Manuel, a Poker Player with Pox Face ('Rico Lopez '), a Bald Poker Player, and a Poker.Player with a Cigarillo ('Michel Charrel ' (qv)).
Before Layton entered, Rosário practically forced the bald player to stay, and risk his last banknote, and now Layton noticed that Rosário, standing behind him, made signs to the man smoking a cigar about the sort of cards he had. Layton plays several winning hands, and then as the bets grew in value, and Rosário kept behind him caressing his shoulders, he lost. He says he only has some French money - as the table was accepting US Dollars only - but that was no problem.
The man in the brown suit picks up a small iron box from a drawer, and lends Layton some more American money. They play, Dolorès makes the conventional signs, and to the men's and Dolorès' surprise, Layton wins by producing an unexpected Queen in his hand... He picks up the money to leave, pretexting he has to a consultation with his doctor, and two of the men accuse him of being a cheater.
Calmly, Layton says he is being insulted, and he must beat them. The man of the pox face pulls a flickblade, and Layton overturns the samll poker table. A fist fight follows between him and the men, and when the man with the flickblade was about to cut Layton's throat, he is stopped by Enrique Manega ('José Jaspe' (qv)).
The three crooks leave unhappy, and one gives Layton the money they had already taken from him. Layton asks his old friend from the French Legion, about Dolorès, pretexting his interest is just that of a man for a pretty woman. He knows her, and even his current companion, and where they are staying, in a cattle raising farm in the Sierra Nevada.
(34:50) DOLORES That same evening, Layton breaks into Dolorès fashion design boutique, and inspects her safe, without finding anything of interest. He was about to leave when a Night-guard ('Jean Minisini' (qv)) comes in, aparently a guard, and he has to fight him and knock him out to escape. Suddenly, Layton decides to get back to the room with the safe, re-opens it, takes some paper money, and throws documents around, to give the impression that a real burglar had been in there.
Through the curtained window, he can see Dolorès Arrabal in the opposit window, talking with a man. Layton gets out from the fashion boutique by the window, while Dolorès and her brother Pablo are having a discussion and an exchange of slaps, because of his tendency to drink too much. He says, "I drink because of you, or thanks to you...
I don't know any more if I drink to kill, or if I kill to drink." The clock chimes eleven. He asks her for money, as he intends to leave the country and be... a football player! She hands him a large stash of banknotes, but he demands no less than five million.
He knows her companion, Mishra, can afford it. Layton follows Pablo in the street, without noticing that he is being followed in turn by Rosário. Dolorès calls Mishra, and tells him what happened.
Layton follows Pablo, as he visits bars with music, first a Caribbean bar, then a Flamenco one, where he talks briefly with a Blonde Dancer ('Elisa Montés' (qv)?), and last a piano bar. Layton fails to rob an object that belongs to Mishra, and with which Pablo is making the extortion for the five millions at the last bar, and keeps following him - to the Ascencion Hotel, linked to the bar Don Quijote, where a girl is singing to the sound of guitars. Pablo picks up a fight with a couple of customers, and is bounced out to the street.
layton is there, offering a hand to lift him up, and to pick the object from Pablo's pocket without him noticing. Pablo opens his room at the hotel and puts the light on - and sees his sister, Misrah Petrich ('Luis Peña' (qv)), Jésus, Adams, and Gregory's Driver waiting for him. he tries to escape, but Adams catches him and brings him inside the room.
Mishra slaps him, and then gives him the good evening salute. Mishra demands the piece that belongs to him, and Pablo Gomez, not knowing he has been robbed, keeps demanding the five millions. After a couple of hard punches to the stomach, he decides to give the thing to Mishra - only to discover he has been robbed.
Beignard stays alone with Gomez, while in his room Layton puzzles over the valuable thing he has unwrapped: a set of false teeth! On one of the plates, it's inscribed, "Cervantès XXVI". There was also a dental X-ray marked "18 VIII 65". He hides the little clutch bag with both items in a decorative copper vessel in the corridor, just when Rosàrio is leaving the common bathroom dressed in a towell, walking on naked feet to her room.
He asks to play a game of cards with her, but she discourages him, and closes the door behind her. She was already getting naked when Layton enters the room, saying he supposed it was his, but talking of the hot evening, he starts undressing too. Rosario does not seem concerned that he is nude in her bed...
(52:00) THE DENTURE Next morning, Layton pays a visit at Dr. Cervantès, the dentist. He rings several times, but without waiting for someone to open the door, he prepares to break him.
To his surprise, Dolores Arrabal opens the door, dressed as a nurse. Judging from the dust on the furniture and sofas, the sitting room has not been used or maintained for a long time. He goes out looking for the nurse, and finds she is gone; also, the dentist's cabinet is covered by cobwebs.
He goes through the cabinet's files without noticing anything. Leaving the building, at the inner patio, he crosses Cervantès Landlady, and she informs him that the doctor had died of an accident: he had had a very close shave! Meanwhile, Dolores Arrabal had been inside a plasterer shop, waiting to see Layton leave the premises, before taking her sports car, and driving away. (54:30) At his room, Pablo wakes up gagged, and tortured by his guardian, Beignard.
Jésus and Adams give him a little of the rests of their breakfast. Layton was waiting in the corridor, and using the surprise effect, he punches both henchmen and gets inside the room. The fist fight takes long, and the furniture is being demlished when some body blows or kicks miss.
In the car, Beignard looks at his wrist watch, in his impeccable driver uniform - until he decides to go up and see what's causing the delay. Layton knocks out Jésus, hears the last words of Pablo Gomez - that Hakim Gregory has changed his face - befor ehe dies of his night of torture, and is attacked again by Adams, whom he throws off a balcony to a back entry several floors below, to his death. Beignard sees Adams body, and hides, in time to see Layton step down.
Beignard informs Mishra of Gomez' death, while Layton searches for Manega again. Misrah orders his driver not to tell Dolores that her brother has died, as he intends to tell her that in a couple of days that he went to France. Dolores enters the room with a handful of white calla lillies (possibly in preparation to her wedding with Mishra) and her fiancé asks her about the man she had come across at the dentist's office.
Mishra says that Layton must be killed, and Beignard - looking through a false mirror - tells him that Layton is visiting the fashion house right now. GIFTS In fact, Layton has escorted Rosario to the ready-made fashion shop, and she is trying a yellow dress under the attentive eyes of a Female Attendant ('Anna Gaylor' (qv)). He keeps adding dresses to his order, and the shop attendants are delighted - as is Dolores, on the other side of the fake mirror.
He says he is paying cash, and puts the denture on the accountant's desk. Dolores appears as if by magic in the room, followed shortly by Mishra. After exchanging some words, Layton leaves with Rosario, leaving the denture in Mishra's hands.
Their taxi is followed by a car with two of Mishra's men, one in a brown jacket, the other in a blue jacket ('Fred Williams' (qv)). RESTAURANT Layton takes Rosario to a scenic restaurant, and orders pricy food and drinks. He sees the two men who were tailing him sit at another table, and takes leave from his companion to make a phone call to Malaga.
As Layton closes the phone booth door behind him, Marion arrives in front of the door, unhappy to find the phone occupied again. Layton leaves the phone booth, and both lovers are mesmerized to come across each other, again. She seems about to make another scene, but she's forgotten, jumps into his lap, full of joy.
Three of the American tourists see them, and join in their happiness. He explains that the woman she had seen him with had tried to abuse him, and he had never seen her before... Marion is a practical girl, asks him if he had had luch already, which he says, "No..." and promptly, she drags him by the hand into the adjoining room set to serve lunch to the tour group.
The Chef is awfully surprised to see the same man sitting at the veranda with one woman, now inside, ordering a new luch at the tour guide's table. Layton invents a story of an accident, and the insirance company he works for, sending him to Malaga to make the insurance survey. Marion speaks of children, marriage, and Chinese sex, and Layton is only eager to escape to the terrace, and re-join Dolores.
He does so, after ordering the wine. He prepares a sandwich for her to take with her, tells her she is in a great danger, and tells her to run away quickly. She does, but first she wants a kiss.
As they kiss, Marion is watching them from the bay-window. He gets back to Marion, who is preparing a sandwich for herself, and leaves him at the table, taking her tourists with her. Again he tries to reason with Marion, but she delivers one of her right punches to the jaw, and Layton flies over the handrail, and falls on the floor below, on a bed of shrubs.
His jaw hurts, but Layton makes it to a table where Dolores is having a frizzy drink. She shows him a pistol, and orders him to put his hands behind his head. Meanwhile, Marion is commanding her tourists like an army sergeant, conveying them into the bus.
But then, Marion sees the two men gagging and grabbing Rosario, and forcing her into a closed van. Marion decides to investigate, hiding between the cars parked in front of the restaurant, and sees Layton taking the driver's place in Dolores' sports car, with yet this other woman at his side. PRISONER Marion orders the tour bus driver to follow the green sports car, which is following the van taking Rosario prisoner, and the three vehicles go at a considerable speed through a scenic by dangerous mountain road, with plenty of U bends.
By stopping the car suddenly in front of Malaga's cathedral, Layton manages to take Dolores' pistol, and reverse the situation... only to impose her to have a whisky with him, and talk things over. Layton drives to Dolores' apartment downtown, stops in a narrow street - thus blocking the passage of the tour bus that was still following them.
Marion sees Dolores closing the blinds of the bay window, and mounts the stairs quickly. Just in time to find Layton kissing Dolores, to settle their armistice... Layton prtends to be an associate of Mr.
Gomez, and is demanding 10 millions for the two X-rays he pretends to have. While they were discussing, Jésus comes behind Layton and knocks him out with a truncheon. Jésus and the two henchmen of Misha drug Layton, and take him to the van, and they go back up the dwindling road, again followed by Dolores, alone in her sports car...
Unawares that Marion had got inside the van, and is now making a declaration of love to Layton, deeply asleep. Marion is not perceived, because she had been hiding between rows of clothes inside the van - property of Dolores Arrabal's fashion house. Layton is revived at Misha's "finca" (ranch), and he repeats his deal proposition to Mishra.
Layton, keeping a conversation tone, tells that Gomez is dead - thus upsetting Dolores who was listening to their dialogue. Dolores runs away from the passageway overlooking a training bull fight arena, angry. Mishra excites a bull for a minute, then asks for Miguel ('Henri Guégan' (qv)) - the man in the brown jacket, who brings him Rosario, her hands tied behind her back.
Under the menace of seeing Rosario thrown down to the bull's horns, Layton says where he has hidden the X-rays, and Mishra spares the girl. Jésus picks the van to go to Torremolinos, as Marion is hiding on top of the van. At the country mansion, Rosario overhears a conversation between Mishra and someone else, and Mishra is receiving orders to kills both Layton and the girl.
Marion stood hidden at the "garage", but discovers she is in a bulls' stable instead, and screams. Her scream calls the attention of the third henchman, wearing a blue jacket with a little mustach ('Antoine Baud' (qv)), just as Dolores is trying to get out of the house unobserved. The henchman misses her, and Dolores gets to the haystack where Layton is.
They discuss his, and her situation: he claims not to be a secret agent, she claims her only crime is to have fallen in love with Mishra. (79:50) Dolores has untied half of Layton's bonds, when she decides to kiss him - just when Marion had managed to find her way in to the hayloft. Marion charges across the stable like an arena bull, kicks Layton to the chest as he pretended to explain everything to her, and and launches herself into the surprised Dolores, flooring her with a single punch.
Both women are in knee length dresses and nylons and high-heel shoes. Layton, who is caught between dodging her fury and further loosening his wrists, can't do much. The scorned woman throws punches on Dolores, who grabs her arms, and they roll on the hay, literally, first one and then the other on top.
At one point Marion is kneeling over Dolores, holding her powerfully. This gives Dolores a few seconds respite, needed to stand up and tangle again with Marion. Two villains enter, and Marion leaves Dolores alone, and fist fights with Miguel Dolores starts also to fight Manuel.
The women seem to be winning, when Mishra arrives with a third man. Manuel collapses from the after effect of a punch by Dolores. (81:00) REINFORCEMENTS Dolores tells Mishra that she has told Layton who he is, and he slaps her hard.
Shots are heard, and Manuel crashes through the partition wall into the hayloft. Marion attacks the man with mustach, and Layton uses his free legs to disarm Mishra who was holding a pistol. Then, Layton controls another henchman who comes in with a non lit cigarette ('Antoine Baud' (qv)).
Enrique Manega enters, with a Luger in hand. Followed by Petula, who jumps down from a window. Petula is dressed in a black trousers and a chequered cap.
She addresses Mishra, poiunts a pistol at him, and gives him an order of prison... using the name of Hakim Gregory. Next, Petula goes to Layton, brushing the hay off his coat and caressing his bruised cheek...
Marion looks at her in amazement. She, Marion, is his steady lover, after all, not this woman, again! She rushes at Petula, tackles her bodily, and they both tumble onto a pile of hay in a frenzied wrestling. She still manages to punch Layton again.
Mishra uses the confusion to hit the plainclothes officer that came in with Petula, and Dolores and Manega fight the two henchmen. Mishra manages to escape from the loft using one of the windows. (82:10) At the mansion, Beignard always very composed, is taken valuables from a safe into a large hand bag.
Mishrah comes in, and adresses the driver respectfully, saying the airplane is ready for their escape. Beignard - revealed as the gang leader - complains that he has not done a good job, as he made the dentist disappear, but not the denture mold, and shoots him point blank. In the hayloft, where a fire has started, the fistfights go on.
A henchman is thrown down onto the bulls' stable, arousing the animals. Beignard takes the driver seat of the van, but Logan sees him in time to stop the van driving away by throwing an object with nails onto his path. Beignard loses control of the van, and crashes into the barn.
He keeps shooting at Layton, who dodges and hides, finally into a pigsty. When beignard runs out of bullets, they fight hand to hand. Beignard uses a long fork to attack Layton, but eventually the fire damage to the barn's structure forces him to run away.
Layton catches up with him at the passegeway overlooking the bull fight arena, and they fight again hand to hand. Eventually, Beignard falls to the arena, presumably to be butchered by the bull. (86:15) By a KO'ed henchman, Marion and Dolores, all messed up and with faces tarnished by the fire's smut, are sitting and discussing events together, like old friends.
In the next division, Petula is dressing up a wound on Rosario's leg. (86:25) At the Torremolinos hotel, Daniel Layton tries to evade an encounter with Petula, who absolutly wants to meet him to discuss how to bring Hakim Gregory to the French authorities. He tells her he will take care of everything, and jumps out of his room's balcony.
When passing the lobby, he is intercepted by Dolores, who had been waiting for him, but he manages to escape her, too. Outside, Rosario was waiting at the car park, but the resourseful Layton manages to start his car and drive away unseen. (88:45) IN THE BUS Layton passes the frontier back to France.
In front of him, the tour bus is returning from its adventurous tour in Spain. The bus uses a large passage to give way to Layton's car, who passes, and stops in front of it. He goes into the bus, to kiss his fiancee, amidst the happy chorus of the old tourists.
Then, Layton checks with Miss Parker, on the last row of the bus - the "lady" next to her is not chanting, and is in a deep sleep: it's Beignard in women's clothes. Layton exclaims, "I love Miss Parker!" Promptly, Marion is about to run to the back of the bus and start another catfight, but she thinks better, and the couple kisses, at... THE END.