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Ascenseur pour l'echafaud = Elevator to the gallows / Lux présente ; une production Nouvelles Éditions de Films ; adaptation de Roger Nimier et Louis Malle ; dialogue de Roger Nimier ; producteur délégué, Jean Thuillier ; un film de Louis Malle.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 335.
- Criterion collection ; 335
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Calef, Noël, 1907-1968--Film adaptations.
- Calef, Noël.
- Calef, Noël, 1907-1968.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Murder--Drama.
- Murder.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Film noir.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Special édition double-disc set; widescreen.
- Other Title:
- Elevator to the gallows
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2006]
- Language Note:
- In French with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital mono; Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- A young engineer, kills his boss to get his wife, a younger woman madly in love with him. It is perfectly covered as a suicide but he is stuck in the elevator on the way out when the current is shut off. Meanwhile his car is stolen by two young delinquents who kill some German tourists with his gun. He finally gets out of the elevator undetected but a police inspector gets him on the other charge. Though his girl clears him of that, they are finally linked up with the murder of her husband.
- Contents:
- Disc 1. The film
- disc 2. the supplements.
- Participant:
- Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Lino Ventura.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Henri Decae ; editor, Leonide Azar ; music, Miles Davis.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel by Noël Calef.
- Aspect ratio 1.66:1.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.
- Special features: theatrical trailers interviews with director Louis Malle, actors Maurice Ronet and Jeanne Moreau, and original soundtrack session pianist Rene Urtreger; footage of Miles Davis and Louis Malle during the recording session; video program about the score, with jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and critic Gary Giddins; Malle's student film Crazeologie, featuring the title song by Charlie Parker.
- Accompanying booklet contains program notes, an essay by critic Terrence Rafferty, an interview with Louis Malle, and a tribute by film producer Vincent Malle.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1559409754
- OCLC:
- 67617748
- Publisher Number:
- 715515017725
- CC1627D Criterion Collection
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