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Les Diaboliques / Filmsonor présente ; produit et dirigé par H.G. Clouzot ; producteur associé, Vera Films.
LIBRA BLU RAY PN1997 .D5336 2011 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 35.
- Criterion collection ; 35
- Standardized Title:
- Diaboliques (Motion picture : 1955)
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Boileau, Pierre, 1906-1989--Film adaptations.
- Boileau, Pierre.
- Narcejac, Thomas, 1908-1998--Film adaptations.
- Narcejac, Thomas.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Drama.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations).
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Boarding schools--France--Paris--Drama.
- Boarding schools.
- Boileau, Pierre, 1906-1989.
- Narcejac, Thomas, 1908-1998.
- France--Paris.
- Love triangles.
- Genre:
- Feature films -- France.
- Foreign language films -- French.
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Film adaptations
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
- Edition:
- Blu-ray special edition.
- Other Title:
- English title from subtitles: Devils
- Title on container: Diabolique
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
- Language Note:
- French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray disc, Region A; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; monaural, required Blu-ray player.
- Summary:
- Suspense classic that influenced Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. A sadistic headmaster of a boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared.
- Participant:
- Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Jean Brochard, Thérèse Dorny, Michel Serrault.
- Credits:
- Screenplay and dialogue by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jérôme Geronimi, with René Masson and Frédéric Grendel ; director of photography, Armand Thirard ; editor, Madeleine Gug ; music, Georges van Parys.
- Notes:
- Adapted from Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac's Celle qui n'était plus.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
- Special features: New introduction by Serge Bromberg, codirector of Henri Georges Clouzot's "Inferno"; selected-scene commentary by French-film scholar Kelley Conway; new video interview with film critic Kim Newman; original theatrical trailer; plus: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty.
- ISBN:
- 9781604654141
- 1604654147
- OCLC:
- 724111499
- Publisher Number:
- 715515070812
- CC2030BD The Criterion Collection
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