Going to the neighbourhood bar for drink and company, Maudet mentions his boss's stash to the owner Jeff, a crook and murderer, and then picks up a dancer Lou in a night club. Renting an isolated house in New Orleans, Ferchaux falls sick and Maudet gets increasingly frustrated at the whims of an old man with no power left beyond his attaché case of dollars. Hiring a car, he and Maudet drive by back roads to Louisiana, shadowed by FBI agents. Next morning, Ferchaux is able to collect millions of dollars from his safe-deposit box but cannot touch his US bank account because the French authorities are seeking his extradition. Without telling his girl friend Lina, whom he leaves penniless, that night he flies with Ferchaux to New York. Needing a job, he answers an ad for a male secretary able to travel and is hired on the spot by Dieudonné Ferchaux, senior partner of a failing bank who has a criminal past. In Paris the young ex-para and would-be boxer, Michel Maudet, loses his first big fight and is sacked by his manager. Magnet of Doom ( French: L'Aîné des Ferchaux, "The Elder Ferchaux"), also known as An Honorable Young Man, is a 1963 French film, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, based on the novel of the same title by Georges Simenon.
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