Enough Rope (film)

Enough Rope
French film poster
Directed byClaude Autant-Lara
Screenplay byJean Aurenche
Pierre Bost
Based onThe Blunderer by
Patricia Highsmith
Produced byAlexander Grüter
StarringMarina Vlady
Robert Hossein
Maurice Ronet
Yvonne Furneaux
Gert Fröbe
CinematographyJacques Natteau
Edited byMadeleine Gug
Music byRené Cloërec
Color processBlack and white
Production
companies
Coron Filmproduktion
Galatea Film
International Productions
Les Films Marceau
Sancro Film
Distributed byCocinor
Release date
  • 11 January 1963 (1963-01-11)
Running time
116 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
West Germany
LanguageFrench

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

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Walter Saccard and Melchior Kimmel are both suspected for the murder of their wives and set out to prove their innocence.

Cast

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Release

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The film was released in France on 11 January 1963 through Tamasa Distribution.[1] It had 946,050 admissions in France.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Le meurtrier". cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr (in French). Cinémathèque Française. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
  2. ^ "Le Meurtrier". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2014-10-01.
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