Elevator to the Gallows

Elevator to the Gallows

  • Director: Louis Malle
  • Writer: Roger Nimier,Louis Malle,Noël Calef
  • Countries of origin: France
  • Language: French, German
  • Release date: January 29, 1958
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Frantic
  • "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud" is a feature film released by Lux Compagnie Cinématographique, directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronnett, and Georgis Bercioli, on January 29, 1958 Released in France   .
    The film tells the story of an adulterer in a Paris building who murdered his husband and was framed as a wanted criminal who killed an old couple while on the run   .

    Details

    • Release date January 29, 1958
    • Filming locations 26 Rue de Courcelles, Paris 8, Paris, France
    • Production companies Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $374,671

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $7,354

    Gross worldwide

    $431,784

    Movie reviews

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    • By Shakira 2022-01-12 08:01:24

      Reality and reality have no boundaries, beating right

      The director is really clever!

      I can't laugh or cry, but my attention has been held tightly by the plot.

      There are only a few characters, but there is such a wonderful, ups and downs plot, there are always many possible branches after each event, but the director has always used his humor and seriousness to lead us to choose the most difficult mountain path to be discovered.

      Seeing the rude handling of the case by the French police and the media, I thought the director...

    • By Amara 2022-01-12 08:01:24

      Don't mess around with photos

      The impression of Louis Mahler stays in "Seriously Wounded in Love", stays in the extremely fierce character, and the resulting fatalistic tragic meaning. As his feature film debut, this film is known as the forerunner of the French New Wave. It uses black and white images to interpret a story that is not very literary and even with some suspenseful and tense Hollywood crime style. The film does not portray the characters as delicately as in ordinary literary films. Instead, it pays attention...

    • By Scarlett 2022-01-12 08:01:24

      Elevator viewing notes leading to the gallows

      The story/script is very good, the first half is cut, the second half is single-line narrative, the narrative is compact and smooth, and it has the characteristics of both crime and literary romance: the highly stylized lighting in the interrogation room makes Namoro alone a little neurotic Wandering at midnight; special sound effects (explosions) are inserted to express the character's psychology/suggesting plot; the audience’s omniscience and cognitive range, the suspense is magnified; the...

    • By Fernando 2022-01-12 08:01:24

      The content is ironic

      First of all, the title of the movie makes the urge to watch it. The elevator can lead to the death penalty table. What kind of elevator will this be? The characters in the movie are also very unique. The male lead is not a righteous person. He used his skills during the paratrooper period to kill the female lead's husband (referring to the plot of David in the Bible?) and forge it in order to stay with the lover forever. The scene of the suicide. But because of an oversight, he had to...

    • By Dee 2022-01-12 08:01:24

      Louis Mahler: 25-year-old ladder

      "The Elevator to the Gallows" was filmed in 1957. It is the first feature film independently directed by French director Louis Mahler. Louis Mahler is regarded as one of the masters of the French New Wave, and the film is also considered by posterity to be a subsequent rise. One of the first films of French New Wave films, and Mahler was less than 25 years old at the time. The documentary "A Quiet World" that Mahler participated in the previous year won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes...

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    • By Misael 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      The blues of Jeanne Moreau and Mile Davies, wandering alone, tell me that this love reveals melancholy...

    • By Kallie 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      Overall, it's not as good as expected, and some of the transitions are not very convincing. The narration is still different from Hollywood type films, and there is an indescribable European literary atmosphere. As far as I am concerned, I still prefer the black taste of American Hollywood...

    • By Leonie 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      Genius debut. The perfect layout of suspense and the smooth spread of the story are completely free from the common sense of complexity in the new wave. The integration of the narrative of drama and stream of consciousness makes the sense of guilt extremely ambiguous. The hasty ending can't stop the viewer from looking up to this divine...

    • By Gennaro 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      The "love movie" where the hero and heroine never appeared in the same picture, the kind of affection that filled the air through a photo through the telephone receiver made me almost forget that this is also a film...

    • By Marcelle 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      8.4 Even if you don't get caught up in the close-up shots aimed at Jeanne Moreau, you end up melting into Miles Davis' tender jazz score. 9/10/2016 2K remastered version screening, the narrative design is so delicate, the protagonist's doomed fate, if not from his own crimes, but also from the sins of others, the three narrative lines of the male protagonist, the female protagonist and the young couple Concatenated and finished perfectly with one roll of...

    Movie plot

    Julian Taverni ( Maurice Ronnett ) once served in the paratroopers and became an employee of a large arms company after retiring. He and the boss Carrera's wife Florence ( played by Jeanne Moreau ) Hooked up, they drew up a self-confident murder plan under the instigation of Florence. On weekends, he used the skills he had gained from serving in the paratroopers and used ropes to sneak into Carrera’s office from the windows on the...
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    Evaluation action

    "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud" is a crime film with a sophisticated plot design. From the beginning of the film, the whole process of the crime is shown without any suspense. The crime of accurate calculation failed on an inconspicuous detail. The criminal was accidentally trapped in an elevator. It was a seamless crime because the accident was completely changed. After this accident, there were many accidents, and the ingeniously...
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    Movie quotes

    • Véronique: What's crazy is to imagine incredible things. And I really mean something terrific. And it is terrific.

    • Louis: A revolver. A spy camera. Jelfa Oil. He's shady, this Tavernier.

      Véronique: Maybe he's a secret agent? Look at the way he dresses.

    • Louis: A Mercedes! A 300 SL!

      Véronique: Foreigners! They're Danish.

      Louis: No, they're Germans.