The Devils

Hell holds no surprises for them.

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DVD Features:

Rated: R
Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
Video: Black & White
Released: January 21, 2020
Originally Released: 1955
Label: Mr. FAT-W Video
Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Merisse & Charles Vanel
Performer:		Michel Serrault, Pierre Larquey, Noël Roquevert & Georges Poujouly
Directed by		Henri-Georges Clouzot
Edited by		Madeleine Gug
Screenwriting by		Henri-Georges Clouzot & Jerome Geromini
Composition by		Georges Van Parys
Art Direction by		Léon Barsacq
Produced by		Henri-Georges Clouzot
Director of Photography:		Armand Thirard

Entertainment Reviews:

USA Today

Feb 26, 1999

Sight and Sound

Jul 1, 2011

New York Times

Oct 21, 1994

Los Angeles Times

Feb 11, 1995

Entertainment Weekly

May 20, 2011

Total Film

Jan 1, 2004

Product Description:

In this heralded French terror classic by director-screenwriter Henri-Georges Clouzot, the wife of the headmaster of a school for boys tires of his violent treatment of her, along with his philandering, and teams up with his mistress (Simone Signoret) to drown him and make it appear as a suicide. When the body goes missing and sightings of the supposedly dead man are reported all over town, the two mismatched women must uncover what happened to the body before it's discovered what they've done. Upon its release, Clouzot urged all who saw the film not to reveal its surprise ending--- one which still stands as one of the original "shock" endings. The restored version includes 16 minutes of recently found footage.

Plot Synopsis:

Prior to Hitchcock's Psycho, this adult terror classic by French screenwriter-director Henri-Georges Clouzot was considered the most frightening and artistic horror picture ever made. Hitchcock admitted an artistic debt to Clouzot in many ways, including borrowing his practice of insisting that no one be admitted to the theatre, once the film began. Adapted from the source novel, CELLE QUI N'ETAIT PLUS, by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, the setting is a provincial boys school. The school is run by the dictatorial Michel Delassalle and his gentle, brutalized wife, Christina, who has a heart condition. If she dies the school will belong to him. Delassalle is openly having an affair with a teacher, Nicole Horner, and has taken to beating her as well. Together the two women plot to murder Delassalle. After the two women drown him in a bathtub, and drop his body into the school's swimming pool, all is calm until the pool is drained and his body can't be found.

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Production Notes:

Winner of the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Director's Cut (Home Vision DIA 040) includes 9 additional minutes of footage.

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