Enough Rope (film)

1963 French film

11 January 1963 (1963-01-11)

Running time

116 minutesCountriesFrance
Italy
West GermanyLanguageFrench

Enough Rope (French: Le meurtrier) is a 1963 French neo noir crime film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux and Gert Fröbe. The film is an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1954 novel The Blunderer.

Plot

Walter Saccard and Melchior Kimmel are both suspected for the murder of their wives and set out to prove their innocence.

Cast

Marina Vlady as Ellie
Robert Hossein as Corby
Maurice Ronet as Walter Saccard
Yvonne Furneaux as Clara Saccard
Gert Fröbe as Melchior Kimmel
Paulette Dubost as Helen Kimmel
Jacques Monod as Le commissaire / Police Commissioner
Harry Meyen as Tony
Clara Gansard as La bonne
Laurence Badie as La serveuse

Release

The film was released in France on 11 January 1963 through Tamasa Distribution.^[1] It had 946,050 admissions in France.^[2]

See also

List of French films of 1963

References

^ "Le meurtrier". cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr (in French). Cinémathèque Française. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
^ "Le Meurtrier". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2014-10-01.

External links

Enough Rope at IMDb

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Films directed by Claude Autant-Lara

Ciboulette (1933)
The Gutter (1938)
Fric-Frac (1939)
Chiffon's Wedding (1942)
Love Letters (1942)
Love Story (1943)
Sylvie and the Ghost (1946)
Devil in the Flesh (1947)
Keep an Eye on Amelia (1949)
The Red Inn (1951)
"Pride" in The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
Good Lord Without Confession (1953)
Le Blé en herbe (1954)
The Red and the Black (1954)
Marguerite de la nuit (1955)
La Famille Anodin (1956)
La Traversée de Paris (1956)
Love Is My Profession (1958)
The Gambler (1958)
The Green Mare (1959)
The Regattas of San Francisco (1960)
Between Love and Duty (1960)
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! (1961)
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1961)
Enough Rope (1963)
Josefa's Loot (1963)
"La Bestiole" in Black Humor (1965)
A Woman in White (1965)
Une femme en blanc se révolte (1966)
"Paris Today" in The Oldest Profession (1967)
Franciscan of Bourges (1968)
Les Patates (1969)
Gloria (1977)

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Patricia Highsmith

Novels

Strangers on a Train (1950)
The Price of Salt (as Claire Morgan) (1952)
The Blunderer (1954)
Deep Water (1957)
A Game for the Living (1958)
This Sweet Sickness (1960)
The Cry of the Owl (1962)
The Two Faces of January (1964)
The Glass Cell (1964)
A Suspension of Mercy (1965)
Those Who Walk Away (1967)
The Tremor of Forgery (1969)
A Dog's Ransom (1972)
Edith's Diary (1977)
People Who Knock on the Door (1983)
Found in the Street (1987)
Small g: a Summer Idyll (1995)

Ripley series

Short story collections

Adaptations

Strangers on a Train (1951)
Purple Noon (1960)
Enough Rope (1963)
Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969)
The American Friend (1977)
This Sweet Sickness (1977)
A Dog's Ransom (1978)
The Glass Cell (1978)
The Cry of the Owl (1987)
The Story Teller (1989)
Once You Meet a Stranger (1996)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Ripley's Game (2002)
Ripley Under Ground (2005)
The Cry of the Owl (2009)
The Two Faces of January (2014)
Carol (2015)
A Kind of Murder (2016)
Deep Water (2022)
Ripley (2024)

Characters

Tom Ripley

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