Desc: The Caillaux Case: Directed by Richard Stanton. With Madlaine Traverse, Henry Warwick, George Majeroni, Eugene Ormonde. Based on an international scandal that hit prewar France, when the editor of the Paris daily LE FIGARO, Gaston Calmette was shot to death by Madame Caillaux, wife of the Minister of Finance for his exposè of her husband's traitorous activities on behalf of Germany. A sensational trial afterward revealed the extent of the Caillaux spy ring's infiltration of the French government.