About this title: The feature-film debut of famed director Louis Malle is an interesting, modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the husband and make it look like suicide (reminiscent of The Postman Always Rings Twice). Jeanne Moreau, as Florence Carala, gives an astonishing performance, perverse but naive as she leads her young lover ...
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Description: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Lino Ventura. New in new packaging. 1958 Run time: 90. Classic about a woman and her lover, an ex-paratrooper who plan to murder her husband by faking his suicide. But after the man has killed him, he finds he has forgotten the rope outside the window and he returns to the building to remove it, becoming trapped in the elevator between floors. Produced by Jean Thuillier. Written by Noël Calef, Louis Malle and Roger Nimier. ... read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
Date: 2006
UPC:715515017725
Description: Jeanne Moreau; Maurice Ronet; Georges Poujouly; Felix Marten; Jean Wall; Lino Ventura; Yori Bertin. New. Run time: 92 mins. Language: French. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
UPC:715515017725
Description: Jeanne Moreau; Maurice Ronet; Georges Poujouly; Felix Marten; Jean Wall; Lino Ventura; Yori Bertin. New. Run time: 92 mins. Language: French. read more
Description: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall. Very good in good packaging. 1957 Run time: 87. /aka/ Ascenseur pour l'échafaud /aka/ Elevator to the Scaffold /aka/ Frantic /aka/ Lift to the Scaffold. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
Studio: CRITERION
UPC:715515017725
Description: BRAND NEW. In his mesmerizing debut, twenty-four-year-old director Louis Malle brought together the beauty of Jeanne Moreau, the camerawork of Henri Deca, and the now legendary score by Miles Davis. A touchstone of the careers of both its star and director, Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'chafaud) is a richly atmospheric thriller of mistaken identity unfolding over one tense night in Paris. Part of the Criterion Collection of classic films. Attributes: DOLBY, SUBTITLED, WIDESCREEN. read more
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