Title:
Les Diaboliques
Author:
Clouzot, H.-G. (Henri-Georges), screenwriter, director.
Uniform Title:
Diaboliques (Motion picture : 1955)
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Suspense classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
General Note:
Adapted from the novel: Celle qui n'etait plus / Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.
Special features include Serge Bromberg introduction, selected-scene commentary, new video interview with novelist and film critic Kim Newman, trailer
Language:
French
Personal Subject:
ISBN:
9781604654158
UPC:
715515070911
037429135020
Format :
DVD
