Les Diaboliques = The devils

Author

H-G Clouzot

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Full screen version.

Languages

In French, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse.

Publication Information

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [1998]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (1 folded sheet)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

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.

Notes

Title on menu screen: Diabolique.

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

DVD version of a 1955 motion picture.