Elevator to the Gallows (1958) ( Ascenseur pour l'échafaud ) ( Elevator to the Scaffold )

Elevator to the Gallows (1958) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
Alternate Title: Elevator to the Scaffold
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Posters
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1958 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Louis Malle

Written By:
Louis Malle
Noël Calef

Actors:
Jeanne Moreau ..... Florence Carala
Maurice Ronet ..... Julien Tavernier
Georges Poujouly ..... Louis
Yori Bertin ..... Veronique
Jean Wall ..... Simon Carala
Elga Andersen ..... Madame Bencker
Sylviane Aisenstein ..... Secretary
Micheline Bona ..... Genevieve
Gisèle Grandpré ..... Anna
Jacqueline Staup ..... Maurice
Marcel Cuvelier ..... Inspector Cherier's assistant
Gérard Darrieu ..... Attorny of State
Charles Denner ..... Garage owner
Hubert Deschamps
Jacques Hilling

Synopsis:

The former Captain Julien Tavernier works in the company of the powerful arms dealer Simon Carala and is the lover of his wife Florence Carala. Julien and Florence plot a scheme to kill Simon simulating a suicide. Julien stays after-hours in the company with the telephone operator and the doorman and comes to his office. He climbs to Simon's office using a rope outside the window and kills the executive. He runs to his office to attend a phone call and forgets the rope, and leaves the building with the two employees to have an alibi. When he is ready to drive his car, he sees the rope hanging outside the building and he returns to withdraw the rope, leaving his overcoat and revolver in the car. When he enters in the lift, the doorman shutdown the building and Julien is trapped inside the elevator. Meanwhile the smalltime thief Louis steals Julien's car and drives to a motel with his girlfriend Véronique and lodge using the name of Julien. They drink with the German tourists Horst Bencker and his wife Frieda Bencker and early in the morning, Louis tries to steal his Mercedes Benz. When he is surprised by Horst, Louis shots and kills the couple. Julien Tavernier becomes the prime suspect of the murder and when he leaves the lift, he does not have alibi for the murder of Simon Carala and the German tourists.

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...

A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 24 November, 2019.