Les Diabolique
(2011)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/FRENCH/DIABOLIQUE

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/FOREIGN/FRENCH/DIABOLIQUE Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
9781604654158 CC2003D, 1604654155, 631417998X :, 715515070911
LANGUAGE
French
NOTES

Adapted from the novel: Celle qui n'etait plus / Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac

Suspense classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954

Special features include Serge Bromberg introduction, selected-scene commentary, new video interview with novelist and film critic Kim Newman, trailer

Director of photography, Armand Thirard ; editor, Madeleine Gug ; music, Georges van Parys

Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Jean Brochard, Thérèse Dorny, Michel Serrault

DVD, NTSC, Digital mono, Dolby, aspect ratio 1.33:1

In French with optional English subtitles

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