Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Marlene Jobert, Michel Piccoli. Special features: audio commentary by film critics F.X. Feeney, Andy Klein and Wade Major ; filmographies ; trailer ; still gallery. Based on the novel by Ellery Queen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1972. A foreign film (France, Italy). Issued in boxed set with title: The Claude Chabrol collection.
Summary:
Divided into 10 days, the story focuses on the wealthy Van Horns. Orson Welles plays the eccentric tycoon who lives in an Alsatian chateau with his young wife and his adopted son, a sculptor given to hallucinatory fits that cause him to fear he has unknowingly committed murder. Of course, wife and son are having a passionate affair and being blackmailed, which sets in dizzying motion the complex plot.
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