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Directed by : Louis Malle
Produced by : NEF - Nouvelles Éditions de Films
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 30 min
French release: 29/01/1958
Production year: 1957

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, with help from the employer's wife, who is his mistress, thereby unintentionally provoking an ill-fated chain of events.

 

 

 

Times (UK): "Elevator to the Gallows was the perfect opening to the French New Wave in 1958."

The Guardian: "What a supremely stylish and watchable picture it is."

The Daily Telegraph: "Few debuts come punchier, cooler, and more influential than Louis Malle's 1958 thriller."

Télérama: "Miles Davis' trumpet improvises to accompany Jeanne Moreau wandering through the streets. It seems to express the young woman's ineffable helplessness."

More info: http://en.unifrance.org/movie/325/elevator-to-the-gallows

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