A film can have a great opening, only for the rest to be disappointing and anti-climactic compared with it. An example of this can be found in *Innocents with Dirty Hands*, a.k.a. *Dirty Hands*, a 1975 French crime thriller directed by Claude Chabrol. The film is based on *The Damned Innocents*, a 1971 novel by American writer Richard Neeley (whose 1970 film *The Plastic Nightmare* later served as the basis for the…






