The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
★ 5.1 · 1970 · 105m · Mystery · Drama · Crime
Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
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