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Elevator to the Gallows = Ascenseur pour l'echafaud
Uniform Title
Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (Motion picture)
Title
Elevator to the Gallows = Ascenseur pour l'echafaud / Lux Compagnie Cinématographique présente un film de Louis Malle ; adaptation de Roger Nimier et Louis Malle ; dialogue de Roger Nimier ; une production Nouvelles Éditions de Films ; producteur délégué, Jean Thuillier.
ISBN
9781681433981
1681433982
Edition
DVD special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.
Based on the novel by Noël Calef, Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (pré-adaptation de l'auteur) [first adaptation by the author].
Wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio).
Special features: 1975 interview with Louis Malle filmed by Canadian television during the production of his film Black moon; interview from 2005 with Jeanne Moreau; Malle and Moreau at Cannes (1993 conversation with journalist Michel Feld, filmed for the French television program Le cercle de minuit); 1957 interview of actor Maurice Ronet by François Chalais for the television program Reflets de Cannes; footage of Miles Davis and Malle from the soundtrack recording session; program from 2005 about the score; Malle's student film Crazeologie; trailers; booket featuring an essay by Terrence Rafferty, and inteview with Malle and a tribute by film producer Vincent Malle.
Director of photography, Henri Decae ; editor, Léonide Azar ; original music, Miles Davis.
In French with optional subtitles in English.
Summary
Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She spends the night wandering the Parisian streets alone. Meanwhile brash teenager Louis and his girlfriend Veronique decide to "borrow" the car, which launches a disastrous stream of coincidence with sinister consequences.
Variant and related titles
Ascenseur pour l'echafaud
Title on disc label: Elevator to the gallows
Title on container: Louis Malle's elevator to the gallows
Also known as: Frantic
Crazeologie (Motion picture)
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
March 22, 2018
Series
The Criterion collection ; 335
Credits
Director of photography, Henri Decae ; editor, Léonide Azar ; original music, Miles Davis.
Cast
Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen, Sylviane Aisenstein, Micheline Bona, Gisèle Grandpré, Jacqueline Staup, Marcel Cuvelier, Gérard Darrieu, Charles Denner, Hubert Deschamps, Jacques Hilling, Marcel Journet, François Joux, Ivan Petrovich, Félix Marten, Lino Ventura.
System details note
DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital 1.0 mono; 16:9 widescreen presentation.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
CC2848DDVD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Film noir.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Film noir.
Also listed under
Lux Compagnie cinématographique de France, presenter.
Nouvelles éditions de films (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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