The Butcher(1970)
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Movie: The Butcher
Top 7 Billed Cast
Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
Paul Thomas, aka 'Popaul'
Commissioner Grumbach
Léon Hamel
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