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Elevator to the Gallows (French: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud), also known as Frantic in the US and Lift to the Scaffold in the UK, is a 1958 French crime thriller film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as illicit lovers whose murder plot starts to unravel after one of them becomes trapped in an elevator. The ...
Elevator to the Gallows: Directed by Louis Malle. With Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin. A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Taking place over the course of one restless Paris night, Malle’s richly atmospheric crime thriller stars Moreau and Maurice Ronet as lovers whose plan to murder her husband (his boss) goes awry, setting off a chain of events that seals their fate.
Sep 15, 2005 · Malle's 'Elevator' a noir masterpiece. Caught up in a web of murder and intrigue, Julien (Maurice Ronet, left) and Florence (Jeanne Moreau) are questioned by Inspector Cherier Lino Ventura in "Elevator to the Gallows." She loves him.
Restless femme fatale Florence Carala (Jeanne Moreau) recruits her lover, Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet), to murder her wealthy husband, Simon (Jean Wall), in his office and make it appear like...
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May 10, 2023 · Taking place over the course of one restless Paris night, Malle’s richly atmospheric crime thriller stars Moreau and Maurice Ronet as lovers whose plan to murder her husband (his boss) goes awry, setting off a chain of events that seals their fate.
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events. Florence Carala and her lover, Julien Tavernier, want to murder her husband - Julien's boss - by faking his suicide.
The on-the-run shooting of Parisian streets soon to become a New Wave trademark begins here. Elevator to the Gallows was and still is moody and potent, and Moreau, who cemented her iconic status in Malle's next film, Les Amants (The Lovers) (1958), never looked back.
Apr 24, 2006 · The screenplay, adapted by Malle and Roger Nimier from an undistinguished novel by Noël Calef, is a fairly straightforward murder-gone-wrong story: more elaborate than most, perhaps, but still characterized by the sort of swiftness and brutal linearity that thriller audiences expect.
Taking place over the course of one restless Paris night, Malle’s richly atmospheric crime thriller stars Moreau and Maurice Ronet as lovers whose plan to murder her husband (his boss) goes awry, setting off a chain of events that seals their fate.
