A Kiss for a Killer
1957 film
- 27 November 1957 (1957-11-27)
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A Kiss for a Killer (French: Une manche et la belle) is a 1957 French drama mystery film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Henri Vidal, Mylène Demongeot and Isa Miranda.[1] It is based on the 1954 novel The Sucker Punch by James Hadley Chase.[2]
It was shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean d'Eaubonne.
Plot
A wealthy widow living in Nice marries an attractive but self-centred young man. Soon after the wedding he meets and falls in love with her niece Eva, whose calculating ambitions lead her to push him to murder her aunt.
Cast
- Henri Vidal as Philippe Delaroche
- Mylène Demongeot as Eva Dollan
- Isa Miranda as Stella Farnwell
- Jean-Loup Philippe as Bob Farnwell (as Jean-Lou Philippe)
- Simone Bach as Sylvette Guibert
- Antonin Berval as Le maire
- Jean Galland as Bank manager
- Ky Duyen as Chang
- André Roanne as Le commissaire
- Marc Valbel as Monsieur Edmond
- Alfred Adam as L'inspecteur de police Malard
See also
References
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Hayward, Susan. French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film. Intellect Books, 2010.
External links
- A Kiss for a Killer at IMDb
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Films directed by Henri Verneuil
- Village Feud (1951)
- Full House (1952)
- Forbidden Fruit (1952)
- The Baker of Valorgue (1953)
- Carnival (1953)
- The Most Wanted Man (1953)
- The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954)
- The Lovers of Lisbon (1955)
- People of No Importance (1956)
- Paris, Palace Hotel (1956)
- A Kiss for a Killer (1957)
- Maxime (1958)
- The Big Chief (1959)
- The Cow and I (1959)
- It Happened All Night (1960)
- Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
- The President (1961)
- The Lions Are Loose (1961)
- A Monkey in Winter (1962)
- Any Number Can Win (1963)
- Greed in the Sun (1964)
- Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
- The 25th Hour (1967)
- Guns for San Sebastian (1968)
- The Sicilian Clan (1969)
- The Burglars (1971)
- Night Flight from Moscow (1973)
- Fear Over the City (1975)
- Body of My Enemy (1976)
- I as in Icarus (1979)
- A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982)
- Les Morfalous (1984)
- Mother (1991)
- 588 rue paradis (1992)
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