Enough Rope (film)
| Enough Rope | |
|---|---|
 French film poster | |
| Directed by | Claude Autant-Lara |
| Screenplay by | Jean Aurenche Pierre Bost |
| Based on | The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith |
| Produced by | Alexander Grüter |
| Starring | Marina Vlady Robert Hossein Maurice Ronet Yvonne Furneaux Gert Fröbe |
| Cinematography | Jacques Natteau |
| Edited by | Madeleine Gug |
| Music by | René Cloërec |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production companies | Coron Filmproduktion Galatea Film International Productions Les Films Marceau Sancro Film |
| Distributed by | Cocinor |
Release date |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
| Countries | France Italy West Germany |
| Language | French |
Enough Rope (French: Le meurtrier) is a 1963 French-Italian-West-German neo noir crime film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux and Gert Fröbe. The film is an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1954 novel The Blunderer.
Plot
Walter Saccard and Melchior Kimmel are both suspected for the murder of their wives and set out to prove their innocence.
Cast
- Marina Vlady as Ellie
- Robert Hossein as Corby
- Maurice Ronet as Walter Saccard
- Yvonne Furneaux as Clara Saccard
- Gert Fröbe as Melchior Kimmel
- Paulette Dubost as Helen Kimmel
- Jacques Monod as Le commissaire / Police Commissioner
- Harry Meyen as Tony
- Clara Gansard as La bonne
- Laurence Badie as La serveuse
Release
The film was released in France on 11 January 1963 through Tamasa Distribution.[1] It had 946,050 admissions in France.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Le meurtrier". cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr (in French). Cinémathèque Française. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
- ^ "Le Meurtrier". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2014-10-01.
External links
- Enough Rope at IMDb