Ten Days' Wonder (French: La Décade prodigieuse) is a 1971 French murder-mystery film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Michel Piccoli, Anthony Perkins, and Orson Welles. It is based on the novel Ten Days' Wonder by Ellery Queen.
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Directed by | Claude Chabrol |
Written by | Paul Gégauff Eugène Archer Paul Gardner (writer) Ellery Queen (novel) |
Produced by | André Génovès |
Starring | Michel Piccoli Anthony Perkins Orson Welles |
Cinematography | Jean Rabier |
Edited by | Jacques Gaillard |
Music by | Pierre Jansen |
Distributed by | Parafrance Films |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | English |
Box office | $5,323,830[1] |
It follows the same story of the novel with the exception of detective Ellery Queen being changed to Paul Regis (Michel Piccoli). It was the fourth film that Welles and Perkins appeared in together since The Trial in 1962.
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