Web of Passion
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| À double tour | |
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| Directed by | Claude Chabrol |
| Written by | Claude Chabrol Paul Gégauff Stanley Ellin (novel) |
| Starring | Antonella Lualdi Jean-Paul Belmondo Bernadette Lafont Madeleine Robinson |
| Cinematography | Henri Decaë |
| Music by | Paul Misraki |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Box office | 1,446,479 admissions (France)[1] |
Web of Passion (also released as Leda, original French title: À double tour) is a 1959 French suspense thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel The Key to Nicholas Street by American writer Stanley Ellin. It was Chabrol's first film in the thriller genre, which would be his genre of choice for the rest of his career. The film had a total of 1,445,587 admissions in France.[2]
Plot
Leda (Antonella Lualdi), the mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committing the crime. But Marcoux's daughter's fiance (Jean-Paul Belmondo) suspects that Leda may have been murdered by someone else.
Cast
- Madeleine Robinson as Thérèse Marcoux
- Antonella Lualdi as Léda
- Jean-Paul Belmondo as Laszlo Kovacs
- Jacques Dacqmine as Henri Marcoux
- Jeanne Valérie as Elisabeth
- Bernadette Lafont as Julie, the maid
- André Jocelyn as Richard Marcoux
- Mario David as Roger, the milkman
- László Szabó as Laszlo's friend
Notes
Belmondo plays a character named Laszlo Kovacs, which was the alias of his character Michel Poiccard in Breathless
References
- ^ Box office information for film at Box Office Story
- ^ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=9493
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