A man who divorces buys a desirable new mansion in the country ;he discovers a wire-tapping set ,which enables him to spy on his children ,his servants,his secretary and even his tricky editor(he is a best-selling writer,the toast of the town ,and women are dying for his autograph).Not bad for an idea,but dreadful screenplay ,which verges on coarseness.
Jean Girault was an unambitious director ;yet,some of his movies had their funny moments,and those moments stem from the indomitable presence of Louis De Funès.(notably the Gendarme saga ,particularly the first episodes).Nobody at all in this film has ever been in the business of supplying laughters ;neither Louis Velle (with whom Girault had already done the eminently forgettable "Permis De Conduire" nor his co-stars (Martine Sarcey and Chantal Nobel) are comic actors;let's be nice and forget Christine Fabrega as "Gilda" and Emmanuel De Sablet as the offspring.
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