1955 movie said to have the best twist ever...
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He faked his death
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In the film's famous shocking twist ending after following a curving plotline, the despicable and abusive Michel Delassalle (Paul Meurisse) was never killed by his downtrodden, humiliated,
The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body disappears, and strange events ...
Out on Blu-ray and DVD on May 17. 2011! Learn more: www.criterion.com Before Psycho, Peeping Tom, and Repulsion, there was Diabolique. This ...
Alfred Hitchcock had a favourite aphorism he used to describe the difference between surprise and suspense:
“There’s two people having breakfast and there’s a bomb under the table. If it explodes, that’s a surprise. But if it doesn’t. . .”
He might have been thinking of The Wages of Fear , the unbelievably tense 1953 thriller by Henri-Georges Clouzot, the French filmmaker who was Hitch’s greatest rival for the title of Master of Suspense.
Screening as a restored 35mm print Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at TIFF Bell Lightbox, leading a Clouzot retrospective that continues through Nov. 29, Wages offers the ultimate “bomb under the table” scenario:
Four men with two trucks loaded with highly volatile nitroglycerine must travel hundreds of kilometres over rough South American terrain to a remote oil well fire. The nitro is the only thing to stop the inferno. It’s been split between two trucks, because nobody believes both vehicles will make it.
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Les diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) Not even reinventing the wheel: the 1996 remake - Diabolique There have been several remakes of Les Diaboliques, but arguably the most notorious one is ... |
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Bowker's Complete Video Directory 2002, Entertainment : titles A-S. S00335) $29.95 Diabolique. (1955). Foreign Films— France Mystery Ai Suspense. ... Diabolique. Based on a novel by Pierre Boileau. Thom Narcejac. (1955) ... |
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'Sister Wives' puts sitcom gloss on grim reality A wife (Simone Signoret) and mistress (Vera Clouzot) conspire to kill their tormentor in director Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1955 shocker "Diabolique" (8 pm Saturday, TCM). A murder with gothic overtones on "CSI: Miami" (8 pm, CBS, r, TV-14) . |
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Two Black Cadillacs begins with a funeral procession, and if you've ever seen Diabolique (either the 1955 French classic or the 1996 Sharon Stone remake), you'll quickly figure out what led to this moment and why the procession needs two Cadillacs.
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Félix Labisse (1905-1982) : Le monde des métamorphoses d'un surréaliste
En 1928, son texte fondateur de la mythologie labissienne Préhistoire raconte l'histoire de la terre jusqu'à la veille du Déluge, dans laquelle il met en scène des animaux hyper diaboliques. En 1929, il donne sa version de la tentation de Saint-Antoine
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A very good murder mystery from France made in 1955.
Unlike many others, I thought the "twist" was obvious, but I chalk that up to watching too many movies.
The ending does leave room for speculation and overall a good film.
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