The Wages of Fear
Charles Vanel, a veteran French actor who had played a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear" (1953), and a restaurateur opposite Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" (1955), was cast as Sébastien's eccentric but friendly fisherman uncle Louis Maréchal. Actress and singer Jacqueline Dano was cast as Clarisse the housekeeper, and Israeli pop star Mike Brant also appears.