Michel and Nicole plots to murder Christina. He even forces his wife to accept the fact he is in love with Nicole. Michel is bitterly cruel to Christina and deliberately humiliated her in everyway that he can think of. A fragile wife, Christina DeLassalle (Vera Clougzot), with a serious heart condition, is married to a sadistic, greedy man, Michel DeLasseelle (Paul Meurisse), who has a mistress, Nicole Horner (Simone Signoret). Yes, it has English subtitles for those of us who do not speak French. This is another psychological thriller and, this is also another great movie Classic, that must be seen. I must have watched it a dozen times and, each time, I liked it more than the last time.Ģ) Then there is the French film, Les Diabolique (1955) with Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, and Paul Meurisse. If you claim to be a movie lover, this movie cannot be missed. This isn’t a good movie, this is a great movie. Being a sharp detective, he senses something isn’t quite right between Paula and her husband. As a boy, he had a huge crush on the Opera singer. In this spooky house, Paula hears strange sounds, she images she see things, and personal items of Gregory’s turns up missing but, are later found in Paula’s possession.Ī young inspector from Scotland Yard, Brian Cameron (Joseph Cotton) notices Paula’s striking resemblance to her famous murdered aunt. Paula’s aunt Alice, a famous Opera singer, was murdered years ago in the same house that she and Anton reside. With mental illness in her family, it is suggested that a number of tragic actions may eventually happen to her such as a suicide, or a deadly accident or possibly, she needs to be locked away in a mental hospital. The Husband, Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer), tries to convince his wife, Paula (Ingrid Berman) she is going slowly going mad. This movie is made with the perfect mood of mystery and fear (Film Noir). They include: Ingrid Berman, Charles Boyer, and Joseph Cotton and eighteen year old, Angela Lansbury. It is directed by George Cukor with an amazing cast. Both British and American versions are based on a 1939 play by Patrick Hamilton. In Britain, it is also know as A Strange Case of Murder. This is the American version of a British movie with the same title from 1940. All of them are deserving of a blog post and, if you followed the link below, you may find a blogger who chose one or more of your personal favorites to write about too.ġ) I love the movie classic Gaslight (1944). From the favorites, I chose Midnight Lace (1960) to explain more in detail. So, here are five of my personal favorites. The best movies of this murder theme is either a thriller or a comedy. Strangely, I realized some of these were also personal favorites of mine. When I first received this invite, I thought of all kinds of different movies. As a result, they can be seen in a fictitious work or in a newspaper headline. Uxorcide (technical word for murder of one’s wife) or mariticide (technical word for killing one’s husband), are hideous tales that we have all heard, at some time or other. These timeless tales come from around the world: India’s Schehezade, Germany’s Grimm’s fairy tales, Shakespeare’s Othello, and shown in hundreds of movies. As a result, it has been the theme for many stories. If you consider the three e three main motives for murder: Greed, lust, or revenge, and compare them to what most couples fight about: Money, sex, and past hurts, it should not be surprising that spousal murder is as old as time itself. In reality, this type of murder happens more often than one would think. However, there is a twist: The victim must be a Spouse of the murderer. Theresa Brown from Cine Maven’s Essays From The Couch invited Bloggers to write a post on a movie with a planned “Murder” as its plot. A totally new kind of topic for a Blogathon.
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