Someone Is Bleeding [Les Seins de Glace] *** (1974, Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur, Nicoletta Machiavelli) – Classic Movie Review 8433

Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur and Nicoletta Machiavelli enliven Georges Lautner’s slightly eerie, spooky and unsettling 1974 French adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel Someone Is Bleeding about a strange married couple (Delon, Machiavelli) living in a strange house looked after by an even stranger caretaker.

Brasseur plays François Rollin, a writer who has an instant attraction to Peggy Lister (Darc), a mysterious blonde he sees on the beach at Nice. Stalking her to her villa, he meets lawyer Marc Rilson (Delon), who says Peggy is on drugs and will kill men who come near her.

Someone Is Bleeding [Les Seins de Glace] is rather overlong for such a familiar story, but the playing is expert and writer-director Lautner keeps the film atmospheric and tight.

Also in the cast are André Falcon, Fiore Altoviti, Emilio Messina and Michel Peyrelon.

Someone Is Bleeding [Les Seins de Glace] is directed by Georges Lautner, stars Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur and Nicoletta Machiavelli, runs 106 minutes, is made by Belstar, Capitolina, Lira and Fox-Lira, is released by 20th Century Fox (France) and Joseph Green Pictures (1975) (US), is written by Georges Lautner, is shot in Eastmancolor by Maurice Fellous, is produced by Ralph Baum and is scored Phillipe Sarde.

The advertising runs ‘Be well. Be warned. Beware of ICY BREASTS’, which reminds us that the original French title translates as Breasts of Ice.

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