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Ascenseur pour l'echafaud / Lux Compagnie Cinématographique présente ; un film de Louis Malle ; adaptation de Roger Nimier et Louis Malle ; dialogue de Roger Nimier ; une production Nouvelles Éditions de Films ; producteur délégué, Jean Thuillier.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 335.
- The Criterion collection ; 335
- Standardized Title:
- Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Calef, Noël, 1907-1968--Film adaptations.
- Calef, Noël.
- Calef, Noël, 1907-1968.
- Murder--Drama.
- Murder.
- Juvenile delinquents.
- Adultery--Drama.
- Adultery.
- Murderers--Drama.
- Murderers.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Juvenile delinquents--Drama.
- Mistaken identity--Drama.
- Mistaken identity.
- Paris (France)--Drama.
- Paris (France).
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Film noir.
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Motion pictures, French.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- DVD video 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- DVD special edition.
- Other Title:
- Title on disc label: Elevator to the gallows
- Also known as: Frantic
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In French; optional subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.66:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital 1.0 monaural.
- digital optical mono Dolby Digital
- widescreen (1.66:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She spends the night wandering the Parisian streets alone. Meanwhile brash teenager Louis and his girlfriend Veronique decide to "borrow" the car, which launches a disastrous stream of coincidence with sinister consequences.
- Participant:
- Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen, Sylviane Aisenstein, Micheline Bona, Gisèle Grandpré, Jacqueline Staup, Marcel Cuvelier, Gérard Darrieu, Charles Denner, Hubert Deschamps, Jacques Hilling, Marcel Journet, François Joux, Ivan Petrovich, Félix Marten, Lino Ventura.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Henri Decae; editor, Léonide Azar; original music, Miles Davis.
- Notes:
- Title from title frame.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1958.
- Based on Ascenseur pour l'echaufaud / [by] Noël Calef (pré-adaptation de l'auteur) [first adaptation by the author].
- Wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio).
- Special features: 1975 interview with Louis Malle filmed by Canadian television during the production of his film Black moon; interview from 2005 with Jeanne Moreau; Malle and Moreau at Cannes (1993 conversation with journalist Michel Feld, filmed for the French television program Le cercle de minuit); 1957 interview of actor Maurice Ronet by François Chalais for the television program Reflets de Cannes; footage of Miles Davis and Malle from the soundtrack recording session; program from 2005 about the score; Malle's student film Crazeologie; trailers; booket featuring an essay by Terrence Rafferty, and inteview with Malle and a tribute by film producer Vincent Malle.
- Contains:
- Crazeologie (Motion picture)
- ISBN:
- 9781681433981
- 1681433982
- OCLC:
- 1017475970
- Publisher Number:
- 715515209816
- CC2848DDVD The Criterion Collection
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