| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Catherine Rouvel, Charles Denner, Danielle Darrieux, Denise Provence, Françoise Lugagne, Hildegard Knef, Jean-Pierre Melville, Juliette Mayniel, Mary Marquet, Michèle Morgan, Raymond Queneau, Robert Burnier, Stéphane Audran |
| Event |
Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 1963. |
| Summary |
Set at the beginning of this century, this true story is about Landru, a small clerk who puts matrimonial ads in the paper for moneyed, single women without families. He meets them, seduces them, asks them to come to his home in the town of Gambais, there he kills them after they have signed over all their wealth to him. Suspicious neighbors alert the police and Landru is finally arrested and guillotined. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Crime.
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Motion pictures, French.
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Foreign films.
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Drama.
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Motion pictures.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Chabrol, Claude, film director.
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Rouvel, Catherine, 1939- actor.
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Denner, Charles, actor.
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Darrieux, Danielle, 1917-2017, actor.
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Provence, Denise, actor.
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Lugagne, Françoise, actor.
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Knef, Hildegard, 1925-2002, actor.
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Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973, actor.
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Mayniel, Juliette, 1936- actor.
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Marquet, Mary, actor.
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Morgan, Michele, actor.
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Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976, actor.
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Burnier, Robert, actor.
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Audran, Stéphane, 1932-2018, actor.
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Kino Lorber (Firm),. Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm) Distributor.
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| Music No. |
12235973 Kanopy |
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