Elevator to the Gallows
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7.6
6,681
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- Original title
- Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)
- Year
- 1958
- Running time
- 92 min.
- Country
France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Jeanne Moreau
- Maurice Ronet
- Georges Poujouly
- Yori Bertin
- Jean Wall
- Elga Andersen
- Sylviane Aisenstein
- Micheline Bona
- Gisele Grandpré
- Jacqueline Staup
- Marcel Cuvelier
- Gérard Darrieu
- Charles Denner
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- Music
- Cinematography
Henri Decaë (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Film noir. Thriller. Drama | Cop Movies. Crime
- Synopsis
- Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper want to murder her husband by faking a suicide. But after Julien has killed him and he puts his things in his car, he finds he has forgotten the rope outside the window and he returns to the building to remove it.
- Rankings Position
- Critics' reviews
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"A consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s"
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"Moreau's nocturnal wanderings are made unbearably poignant by an exquisite Miles Davis jazz score that became famous in its own right."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 40 My Favorite French Movies (75)
- 71 My Favorite Noir Movies (68)
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