Jupiter's Thigh

    Jupiter's Thigh
    1980

    Synopsis

    Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?

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    Cast

    • Philippe NoiretAntoine Lemercier
    • Annie GirardotLise Tanquerelle
    • Francis PerrinCharles-Hubert Pochet
    • Catherine AlricAgnès Pochet
    • Marc DudicourtSpiratos
    • Paulette DubostLa mère de Lise
    • Roger CarelSacharias, le conservateur
    • Anna GaylorLa femme du touriste français
    • Gabriel CattandLe maire
    • Philippe BrizardLe touriste français

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