Les Espions
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Directed by | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
Written by | Henri-Georges Clouzot Jerome Geronimi |
Starring | Curd Jürgens Véra Clouzot Gerard Sety Sam Jaffe Peter Ustinov |
Cinematography | Christian Matras |
Music by | Georges Auric |
Release date | 1957 |
Countries | France Italy |
Les Espions ("The Spies") is a 1957 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and written by Clouzot with Jerôme Géronim and Egon Hostovsky. The cast includes Gérard Séty, Peter Ustinov, Curd Jürgens, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe, Martita Hunt and the director's wife, Véra Clouzot. The music was composed by Georges Auric.
Plot summary
The plot concerns a doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital, who is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.
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Categories:
- 1957 films
- 1950s psychological thriller films
- 1950s spy films
- French thriller films
- French spy films
- Films directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
- French films
- Films scored by Georges Auric
- Screenplays by Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Films set in psychiatric hospitals
- Cold War spy films
- 1950s French film stubs
- Thriller film stubs