Stranger in the House (1967 film)

Stranger In The House is a 1967 crime drama directed and written by Pierre Rouve from the novel by Georges Simenon, produced by Anatole de Grunwald, and starring James Mason, Geraldine Chaplin, and Bobby Darin. The movie is also known as CopOut and is a remake of the 1942 French film Strangers in the House Les inconnus dans la maison. The film was remade in 1997.

A disillusioned and drunken former barrister James Mason, disapproving of his estranged daughters Geraldine Chaplin Greek immigrant boyfriend Paul Bertoya and free lifestyle, comes out of retirement when the boy is arrested and accused of murdering a thuggish American sailor Bobby Darin.Some critics felt that, although the casting of Chaplin and Darin was meant to appeal to younger audiences, both were nonetheless too old for their characters. Others thought that the title CopOut might have worked better especially with audiences of the 1960s without its trendy camera work and wearisome generationgap propaganda. ........

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