Alain Delon Collection (Vol. 1) - 4-DVD Set ( Diaboliquement vôtre / La veuve Couderc / Traitement de choc / Les granges brulées ) ( Diabolically Yours / The Widow Couderc / Shock Treatment / The Burned Barns )

Alain Delon Collection (Vol. 1) - 4-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

Out of Stock

Original Title: Diaboliquement vôtre / La veuve Couderc / Traitement de choc / Les granges brulées
Alternate Title: Diabolically Yours / The Widow Couderc / Shock Treatment / The Burned Barns
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
354 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1967 - 1973 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Julien Duvivier
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Alain Jessua
Jean Chapot

Written By:
Louis C. Thomas
Roland Girard
Georges Simenon
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Alain Jessua
Roger Curel
Jean Chapot
Sébastien Roulet

Actors:
Alain Delon ..... Pierre Lagrange a.k.a. Georges Campo
Senta Berger ..... Christiane
Peter Mosbacher ..... Kim
Claude Piéplu ..... Le décorateur
Albert Augier ..... L'infirmière
Renate Birgo ..... Le brigadier
Georges Montant ..... Freddie
Sergio Fantoni
Alain Delon ..... Jean Lavigne
Simone Signoret ..... Veuve Couderc Tati
Ottavia Piccolo ..... Félicie
Jean Tissier ..... Henri
Monique Chaumette ..... Françoise
Boby Lapointe ..... Désiré
Jean-Pierre Castaldi ..... Le commissaire Mallet
Pierre Collet ..... Policeman
Robert Favart ..... Le colonel croix-de-feu
André Rouyer
François Valorbe
Alain Delon ..... Devilers
Annie Girardot ..... Hélène
Robert Hirsch ..... Gérôme
Michel Duchaussoy ..... Bernard
Gabriel Cattand
Jeanne Colletin
Robert Party
Jean Roquel
Roger Muni
Lucienne Legrand
Anne-Marie Deschott
Salvino Di Pietra
Gabriella Cotta Ramusino
Nicole Gueden
François Landolf
Alain Delon ..... Le juge Pierre Larcher
Simone Signoret ..... Rose
Paul Crauchet ..... Pierre
Bernard Le Coq ..... Paul
Christian Barbier ..... L'officier de gendarmerie
Pierre Rousseau ..... Louis
Miou-Miou ..... Monique (as Miou Miou)
Jean Bouise ..... Le journaliste / Reporter
Catherine Allégret ..... Françoise
Fernand Ledoux ..... Le doyen des juges
Renato Salvatori ..... L'hôtelier
Armand Abplanalp ..... L'officier de police
Michel Berard ..... Lucile
Gérard Chevalier
Béatrice Costantini

Synopsis:

Diabolically Yours (1967)
In his last film effort (he was killed in a car accident shortly after its completion), veteran French filmmaker Julien Duvivier manages to spin gold from dross in Diabolically Yours. Alain Delon stars as an amnesiac, unable to remember he is man of wealth, or where he keeps his wealth. The doctors are flummoxed by Delon's total blackout. On the other hand, Delon's wife Senta Berger doesn't believe it, nor does the family's best friend. This fitfully entertaining puzzler succeeds in leading the audience--and the characters--down several garden paths. A French/Italian/German coproduction, Diabolically Yours was originally titled Diaboliquement Votre.

The Widow Couderc (1971)
Simone Signoret plays the title role in this dark melodrama from writer/director Pierre Granier-Deferre. The Widow Couderc is based on a novel by Georges Simenon. Here Signoret (who also starred in Le Chat, an earlier Granier-Deferre adaptation of a Simenon novel) plays a bitterly independent middle-aged widow; she is a farmer who takes in a handsome young drifter, Jean (Alain Delon), who turns out to be recently released from prison. Jean does odd jobs for the woman, who lives with her elderly father-in-law, Henri (Jean Tissier), who pretends to be deaf when it suits him, and surreptitiously has an intimate relationship with Couderc. It's Henri's house, and when Jean moves in, it gives the widow's resentful sister-in-law, Françoise (Monique Chaumette), the excuse she's looking for to get Henri to leave the house so she can sell it. The widow and Jean have a modest dream of using an incubator to raise chicks and make a decent living, but their plans are further complicated when Françoise's promiscuous teenaged daughter, Félicie (Ottavia Piccolo, who would go on to star opposite Delon again in 1974's Zorro) comes around with her infant son. Félicie clearly has eyes for Jean, and to the consternation of the widow, who holds his fate in her hands, Jean has trouble resisting the younger woman's charms.

Shock Treatment (1973)
Losing her young lover makes Helene (Annie Giradot) feel old, so she heads off to a health resort she has heard does wonders for people. The treatments really do make her and the other guests feel better, and for a while that is enough. She cavorts nude on the beach with the head of the clinic (Alain Delon), made unself-conscious by an excess of vitality. However, she stumbles upon the clinic's dark secret: the clients' rejuvenation comes at the expense of Portuguese youths, who arrive at the clinic to work in the gardens and are never seen again.

The Burned Barns (1973)
In this French film, Rose (Simone Signoret) is the pillar on which her family depends, and against which it pulls. These forces are held in equilibrium until a murdered woman's body is found near their farm, the Les Granges Brulees of the film's title. At first, Police Inspector Larcher (Alain Delon) feels that the evidence points to her youngest son. By the time everyone in the family is cleared of suspicion, long-buried truths about each of them will be revealed, and the family will never be the same again.

Diabolically Yours / DIABOLIQUEMENT VOTRE
Christine has killed her husband and disguised the crime as a road accident. She finds a young soldier suffering from amnesia to take over her husband's identity. She attempts to manipulate him...

The Widow Couderc / LES GRANGES BRULEES
In the snow-covered French region of Haut Doubs, a young woman's body is found near a farm, the 'Granges Brûlées'. An investigating magistrate goes there to look into the case and gradually discovers the life and secrets of the farm's inhabitants...

The Burned Barns / LA VEUVE COUDERC
John, an escaped convict, takes refuge on the farm of Widow Couderc. He becomes the older woman's lover and admits that he's on the run. The widow's family-in-law, who hate her, are not long in denouncing John. The farm is soon surrounded by the police...

Shock Treatment / TRAITEMENT DE CHOC
Helen's boyfriend has left her for a younger woman. Feeling old, Helen heads off to a health resort she has heard does wonders for people. The treatments really do make her and the other guests feel better, and for a while that is enough. She cavorts nude on the beach with the head of the clinic, made unself-conscious by an excess of vitality. However, she stumbles upon the clinic's dark secret: the clients' rejuvenation comes at the expense of Portuguese youths, who arrive at the clinic to work in the gardens and are never seen again.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 18 September, 2009.

Customers who bought this product also purchased

Lydia (1941) (DVD)	Bird of Paradise (DVD)	Blood Brothers (DVD)
Alias Nick Beal (DVD)	Violent Life (DVD)	The Truth About Bebe Donge (DVD)