Released Date:
1954-09-30
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France, UK
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (223 Reviews)
Director:
Renè ClèmentLouis Hèmon (novel)
Hugh Mills (adaptation)
Renè Clèment (adaptation)
Raymond Queneau (dialogue)
Hugh Mills (dialogue)
From the Louis Hemon novel "M. Ripois and His Nemesis" about Andre Ripois, a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches from Paris to London. Andre is breaking up with his wife, Catherine, over his attentions to her best friend Patricia. While Catherine is out arranging the divorce, Andre, just to keep in practice, hits on the girl upstairs, Diana and then turns his attention back to Patricia, who he tricks into having dinner at his flat on the pretext that Catherine will be there. When he cannot make any progress with her via his usual tactics, he tries to arouse her pity be telling her of his past. In his early, impoverished days in London, he made love to his boss Anne but her dreadful cooking drove him away. Next came Norah who he picked up on a bus and took to his flat and told her about his make-believe inheritance, but she insisted on marriage first, which was not in his plans. Marcelle, a French woman living in Soho, put him on his feet with money, and he repaid her by stealing fifty pounds and running off. He met the wealthy Catherine at his flat where she came to be tutored in French lessons, and ended up marrying him. But, even at his wedding, he had eyes only for Patricia and, he tells her she is his one true love.
Released Date:
1962-04-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1667 Reviews)
Director:
Sidney HayersGenres:
HorrorFritz Leiber Jr. (novel)
Charles Beaumont (screenplay)
Richard Matheson (screenplay)
A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.
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