Les Diaboliques (1954)

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Genres:

Classics | Drama | World Cinema

Languages:

French

Reviews:

1 reviews

Released:

25 February 2002

Format:

DVD

Staring

Director

Henri-Georges Clouzot

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Great Thriller

Dave from Dublin, 02 Apr 2008

Classic suspense that stands the test of time. Apparently Hitchcock wanted to make it but just missed out on the rights.

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In this heralded French terror classic by director-screenwriter Henri-Georges Clouzot, the wife (Vera Clouzot) of a boys-school headmaster (Paul Merisse) tires of his violent treatment of her, along with his philandering, and teams up with his mistress (Simone Signoret) to drown him and make it appear as a suicide. When the body goes missing and sightings of the supposedly dead man are reported all over town, the two mismatched women must uncover what happened to the body...

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