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A Kiss for a Killer (French: Une manche et la belle) is a 1957 French thriller 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]

A Kiss for a Killer
Directed by	Henri Verneuil
Written by	François Boyer Henri Verneuil Annette Wademant
Based on	The Sucker Punch by James Hadley Chase
Produced by	Michel Safra
Starring	Henri Vidal Mylène Demongeot Isa Miranda
Cinematography	Christian Matras
Edited by	Louisette Hautecoeur
Music by	Paul Durand
Production company	Spéva Films
Distributed by	Cinédis
Release date	27 November 1957
Running time	98 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

It was shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean d'Eaubonne.

Synopsis

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 Betty Farnwell
• Jean-Loup Philippe as Bob Farnwell
• 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

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

На других языках

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[ru] Нищий и красавица

«Нищий и красавица» (фр. Une manche et la belle) — французский криминальный фильм 1957 года режиссера Анри Вернёя, экранизация романа британского писателя Джеймса Хедли Чейза «The Sucker Punch» («Коварный удар», 1954).

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