I Vinti

Plot

The French story

Two teenagers decide to murder their friend, Pierre, who is always boasting about how much money he has. Their plan is for a group of boys and girls, including Pierre, to go to a ruined château outside Paris where there is allegedly buried treasure. Getting Pierre alone, they shoot him with a pistol they have acquired. His money is illusory and he is wounded but not dead, so they flee off home. The father of the boy who fired the gun convinces him to turn himself in to the police.

The Italian story

Although the only child of wealthy parents, Claudio is in a gang smuggling American cigarettes. When police raid an operation, he shoots one dead and flees alone. Falling in the dark, he injures himself badly. He makes it to the house of his girlfriend, but she drives him to a hospital. Staggering off home, his parents find him dead on his bed.

The English story

The crime reporter of a daily newspaper takes a telephone call from Aubrey, a young man who says he has found the body of a woman on the heath and wants payment for his story. The newspaper alert the police, who locate and remove the body. Then they print Aubrey's account on the front page, with his photograph, and pay him. In search of further fame, Aubrey then confesses that he was the murderer but is confident that there is not enough evidence to convict him. There was an error in his original story however, which the police spot, and he is sentenced to death.

Cast

French story

Reception