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The Henri-Georges Clouzot Collection

The Henri-Georges Clouzot Collection

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3-feature set of re-mastered classics from the controversial French master Henri Georges Clouzot. The only director to be banned by both the Nazis and,* after liberation,* his own French church and government,* Clouzot suffered not a bit for this dubious honour. His films are widely held as masterpieces of postwar French cinema and he's certainly one of its most successful cinematic exports. *'Le Corbeau' *(1943) is Clouzot's dark and subversive study of human nature starring Pierre Fresnay and Ginette Leclerc. When a series of poison-pen letters signed *'Le Corbeau' *(The Raven) appears denouncing several prominent members of society a wave of hysteria sweeps the small provincial town of St Robin. Starting with the village doctor,* the slow sinister trickle of letters soon becomes a flood and no one is safe from the malicious accusations,* which include abortion and drug addiction. In *'Quai Des Orferves' *(1947) Jenny Martineau *(Suzy Delair),* accompanied on stage by her husband Maurice *(Bernand Blier),* is an aspiring Music Hall performer. Her ambitions are hampered by the jealousies of the well-meaning Maurice,* whose suspicions are particularly aroused by elderly entrepreneur Georges Brignon *(Charles Dullin) with whose help Jenny thinks she can find fame. When Brignon is found murdered having recently entertained Jenny against her husband's express wishes,* Maurice becomes the prime suspect. *'The Wages Of Fear' *(1953) is Clouzot's Cannes-winner set in the South American jungle where supplies of nitro-glycerine are urgently needed at a remote oil field. The unscrupulous American oil company pays four out-of-work men *(Yves Montand,* Charles Vanel,* Folco Lulli and Peter Van Eyck) to deliver the delicate and deadly supplies in two hulking trucks
Product details
Release Date:
1955
Number of Discs:
3
Publication Date:
2007-06-25
Publisher:
ELEVATION
Aspect Ratios:
1.33:1
Languages:
Original: French
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