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Posts Tagged "Henri-Georges Clouzot"

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L’Enfer [Hell] **** (1994, Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone, Jean-Pierre Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 2360

Director Claude Chabrol tries to make belated amends for the way the French New Wave he was part of attacked the work of Henri-Georges Clouzot, the director of Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, by […]

Apr, 05

Les Espions [The Spies] **** (1957, Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, Martita Hunt, Sam Jaffe, Véra Clouzot, O E Hasse, Paul Carpenter, Gérard Séty) – Classic Movie Review 2359

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s intriguing and unusual 1957 spy thriller, with his screenplay based on the book by Egon Hostovsky, focuses on a rundown, faltering psychiatric clinic. There the psychiatrist owner, desperate for money to keep […]

Apr, 05

La Vérité [The Truth] **** (1960, Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Sami Frey) – Classic Movie Review 2,358

Released in 1960, La Vérité [The Truth] was a runaway hit in France with an incredible 5,700,000 spectators and was Brigitte Bardot’s highest grossing film. She described it as her favourite of all her films. […]

Apr, 05

Le Corbeau [The Raven] **** (1943, Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey) – Classic Movie Review 2357

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1943 polished, sinister and stylish French mystery thriller concerns a mysterious poison-pen writer who is threatening a small French provincial town called St Robin. The dark and subversive screenplay is based on […]

Apr, 04

Les Diaboliques [Diabolique] ***** (1955, Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault) – Classic Movie Review 2354i

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 French spine-tingling suspense classic is based on the ingenious tale Celle Qui N’Etait Plus by the clever writers of Vertigo, Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. This stupendous, vintage gem of a mystery […]

Apr, 04

The Wages of Fear [Le salaire de la peur] ***** (1953, Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot) – Classic Movie Review 927

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s awesome sweaty-palmed, uber-tense, ultra-tough 1953 action thriller established his international reputation. It also turned Yves Montand into a star as a member of the desperate quartet (Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli and […]

Mar, 17

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