Les Diaboliques [videorecording] / Filmsonor Société Anonyme présente ; producteur associé, Vera Films ; produit et dirigé par H.G. Clouzot ; scénario et dialogues de H.G. Clouzot et Jérome Geronimi.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] p. ; 19 cm.)
Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Jean Brochard, Thérèse Dorny, Michel Serrault. Adapted from the novel: Celle qui n'etait plus / Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954. Special features include Serge Bromberg introduction, selected-scene commentary, new video interview with novelist and film critic Kim Newman, trailer
Summary:
Suspense classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
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