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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.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Louis Malle
- 1958-02-01
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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- Jeanne Moreau
- Louis Malle
- Mystery & Thriller
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.
- Florence Carala
Elevator To The Gallows. Buy DVD/Blu-Ray. Listen To Soundtrack. Release Date: Jan 29, 1958. Soundtrack: Ascenseur Pour L’echafaud. With his French quintet of the day—Barney Wilen, tenor saxophone; Rene Urtreger, piano; Pierre Michelot, bass; Kenny Clarke, drums—Miles composed and in the late hours of December 4 and into the next day in a ...
Summaries. 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 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.