One of the best

This film is virtually unknown in America, yet since I saw it in NYC in 1983 it remains for me one of the most perfect "miniatures" - a precise depiction of the hatchet man who comes into a business to save it by toying with the personnel. I have always admired the director Pierre Granier Deferre, and note that one French film expert who comments here on IMDb rightly singled it out along with his film Le Chat (Gabin/Signoret) as classics. The question is: why does such a brilliant work as this remain in the dustbin of film history? I'm becoming more and more depressed with the wave of the past two decades wherein self-appointed (and rather ignorant, certainly uneducated) experts like Quentin Tarantino are turning film history on its head: elevating the trash to the top of the barrel and never seeming to rediscover brilliant jewels like this one. Worse yet, it appears that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of fans are following his example, searching for the WORST instead of the best.