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Nuits Rouges is a 1974 French-Italian crime and thriller film directed by Georges Franju. The film was released in the U.S. in an English-dubbed version by New Line Cinema under the title Shadowman in 1975.

Nuits Rouges
Directed by	Georges Franju
Screenplay by	Jacques Champreaux[1]
Produced by	Raymond Froment[1]
Starring	Gayle Hunnicutt Jacques Champreux Gert Froebe Joséphine Chaplin
Cinematography	Guido Renzo Bertoni[1]
Edited by	Gilbert Natot[1]
Music by	Georges Franju
Production companies	Terra Film S.O.A.T.[1]
Distributed by	Planfilm[2]
Release date	November 20, 1974 (1974-11-20) (France)
Running time	105 minutes
Countries	France Italy[3]
Language	French[4]

Cast

• Gayle Hunnicutt as La femme
• Jacques Champreux as L'homme sans visage
• Josephine Chaplin as Martine Leduc
• Ugo Pagliai as Paul de Borrego
• Gert Froebe as Le commissaire Sorbier

Production

Nuits Rouges was filmed in 1973.[5] The film is a 100-minute theatrical version of a film originally commissioned for television.[5] The budget for the film was so modest that Franju had to film all interiors of the film on a studio set.[6]

Release

Nuits Rouges was released on November 20, 1974, in France.[7]

Reception

Nuits Rouges received mixed and even mocking reviews from French critics on its release.[8] Nuits Rouges was released on DVD in the United Kingdom as part of Eureka's Masters of Cinema series along with another film by Georges Franju, Judex (1963) in 2008.[9]

Notes

References

• Ince, Kate (2005). Georges Franju. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-6828-2.

External links

• Nuits Rouges at IMDb

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