Jenny Lamour 1947  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Mystery
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Charles Dullin, Rene Blancard, Pierre Larquey, Jean Daurand, Claudine Dupuis, Robert Dalban
Singer Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair) yearns to be a star and consorts with a rich "dirty old man" to get ahead, which makes her husband, Maurice (Bernard Blier), jealous. Maurice even goes to the man's estate with a gun, finds the man already killed, and also finds that Jenny had smashed a bottle of champagne over the man's head when he had made a sexual advance. Thus, this excellent Hitchcock-like mystery begins with Maurice being the prime suspect.
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Le Corbeau 1943 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Raven
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Pierre Larquey, Ginette Leclerc, Helena Manson, Noel Roquevert, Antoine Balpetre, Micheline Francey, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Sylvie, Liliane Maigne, Jean Brochard, Bernard Lancret
This film was controversial because it was paid for by the Nazis during World War II. It was remade in the United States under the title, "The 13th Letter." The plot involves inhabitants of a small French town who become upset when poison-pen letters begin to arrive revealing their hidden pasts.
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The Wages of Fear 1953  N/R, 156 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Vera Clouzot, William Tubbs, Antonio Centa, Darling Legitimus, Luis De Lima, Jo Dest, Dario Moreno, Gregoire Gromoff
Four men (Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, and Folco Lulli) are lured by high wages to drive two trucks, loaded with nitroglycerin, over treacherous roads in South America. The chemicals are needed to put out a fire in an American-owned oil field. Remade in 1977 as "Sorcerer."
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| 1. Jenny Lamour (1947)
2. Le Corbeau (1943)
aka: The Raven
3. Les Diaboliques (1954)
aka: Diabolique
aka: The Fiends
aka: The Devils
4. The Wages of Fear (1953)
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