DVD
Elevator to the gallows = Ascenseur pour l'echafaud
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Special ed.
Languages
In French, with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Lino Ventura, Ivan Petrovich, Félix Marten, Elga Andersen, Gérard Darrieu, Sylviane Aisenstein, Charles Denner, Hubert Deschamps, Jean-Claude Brialy.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2006]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
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.
Notes
Title from disc surface.
Based on the novel by Noël Calef.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
Special features: theatrical trailers ; interview with actor Jeanne Moreau ; archival interviews with director Louis Malle, actors Maurice Ronet and Jeanne Moreau, and original soundtrack session pianist René Urtreger ; footage of Miles Davis and Louis Malle from the soundtrack recording session ; video program about the score, with jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and critic Gary Giddins ; Malle's student film "Crazeologie," featuring the title song by Charlie Parker.