Diabolique Devils
2011
DVD
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.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781604654158
Edition: DVD special edition.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (117 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby Digital mono; aspect ratio 1.33:1
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title:
- Devils
- Diaboliques (Motion picture : 1955) [DVD].
Notes:
- Title from container.
- Adapted from the novel: Celle qui n'etait plus / Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
- Special features: Serge Bromberg introduction; selected-scene commentary; new video interview with novelist and film critic Kim Newman; trailer.
- Director of photography, Armand Thirard ; editor, Madeleine Gug ; music, Georges van Parys.
- Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Jean Brochard, Thérèse Dorny, Michel Serrault.
- DVD, region 1; NTSC; Dolby Digital mono; aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- For private home use only.
- In French with optional English subtitles.
Publisher or Distributor Number: CC2003D
Control Number: 813304
UPC:
- 715515070911
- 715515070911
Series:
Subjects:
- Boarding schools -- France -- Paris -- Fiction.
- Boileau-Narcejac. Celle qui n'était plus -- Film adaptations.
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
Genre:
- Feature films.
- Fiction.
- Film adaptations.
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Brochard, Jean, 1893-1972, actor.
- Clouzot, H.-G. (Henri-Georges), screenwriter, film director, film producer.
- Clouzot, Vera, 1913-1960, actor.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
- Dorny, Thérèse, 1891-1976, actor.
- Filmsonor (Firm), production company.
- Geronimi, Jérôme, screenwriter.
- Gug, Madeleine, 1913-1971, editor of moving image work.
- Larquey, Pierre, 1884-1962, actor.
- Meurisse, Paul, 1913-1979, actor.
- Parys, Georges van, composer.
- Roquevert, Noël, actor.
- Serrault, Michel, 1928-2007, actor.
- Signoret, Simone, 1921-1985, actor.
- Thirard, Armand, director of photography.
- Vanel, Charles, 1892-1989, actor.
- Vera Film, production company.