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Les Diaboliques / The Fiends / Diabolique
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| Starring |
Nicole Horner ......... Simone Signoret  , Christina Delasalle ... Vera Clouzot, Michel Delasalle ...... Paul Meurisse
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Directed by:
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Written by:
Henri-Georges Clouzot, G. Geronimi from novel The Woman Who Was, by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
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1954 |
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HORROR
FOREIGN
THRILLER
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France |
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114 |
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The wife (Vera Clouzot, pictured left) and mistress (Simone Signoret, pictured right) of a cruel headmaster (Paul Meurisse) conspire to murder him, but no sooner have they done so than the body vanishes. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| | Classic, horrific thriller with a plot twist that caught a 50s audience unawares. Much imitated, the film is not so shocking now, but it remains gripping, strong on atmosphere and unsettlingly misanthropic. Technically, it’s superb: expertly directed for suspense by Henri-Georges (Wages of Fear ) Clouzot. This is one of the few horror films to have impressed the critics on release - possibly because it was made in French. At any rate, it shared the New York Film Critics’ Award for Best Foreign Film with Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. | | | “I sought only to amuse myself and little child who sleeps in all our hearts— the child who hides her head under the bed-covers and begs, ‘Daddy, Daddy, frighten me.’” | | (Henri-Georges Clouzot) | | |
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