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Le Fou Du Labo 4 Reviews

1967
1 hr 27 mins
Comedy
NR

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This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss, the police, and spies, who seek to secure the secret recipe for their own selfish purposes. A shadowy American underworld figure tries to intimidate the inventor. A half-hearted attempt at comedy tries to go along with the double dealing and trickery of the thin plot of the film.

Lefebvre is a scientist on the run from spies, mobsters, the cops, and even his own boss after he invents a gas that makes people fall in love with each other. The film climaxes in a parody of westerns as a gangster boss comes to a Wild West town strangely located just outside Paris, desperately seeking the gas for his own purposes. What could have been a cute little comedy is hampered severely by uneven direction. The pacing lags as the style alternates between whimsical and unnecessarily somber tones.