Web of Passion

À double tour

Directed by	Claude Chabrol
Written by	Claude Chabrol Paul Gégauff Stanley Ellin (novel)
Starring	Antonella Lualdi Jean-Paul Belmondo Bernadette Lafont Madeleine Robinson
Music by	Paul Misraki
Cinematography	Henri Decaë
Release dates	1959 (1959)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	1,446,479 admissions (France)^[1]

Web of Passion (also released as Leda, original French title: À double tour) is a 1959 French suspense thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel The Key to Nicholas Street by American writer Stanley Ellin. It was Chabrol's first film in the thriller genre, which would be his genre of choice for the rest of his career. The film had a total of 1,445,587 admissions in France.^[2]

Plot

Leda (Antonella Lualdi), the mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committing the crime. But Marcoux's daughter's fiance (Jean-Paul Belmondo) suspects that Leda may have been murdered by someone else.

Cast

Madeleine Robinson as Thérèse Marcoux
Antonella Lualdi as Léda
Jean-Paul Belmondo as Laszlo Kovacs
Jacques Dacqmine as Henri Marcoux
Jeanne Valérie as Elisabeth
Bernadette Lafont as Julie, the maid
André Jocelyn as Richard Marcoux
Mario David as Roger, the milkman
László Szabó as Laszlo's friend

Notes

Belmondo plays a character named Laszlo Kovacs, which was the alias of his character Michel Poiccard in Breathless

Reception

Madeleine Robinson won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in 1959 for her role in this film.^[3]

References

External links

Web of Passion at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Claude Chabrol

Le Beau Serge (1958)
Les Cousins (1959)
Web of Passion (1959)
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
Wise Guys (1961)
The Third Lover (1962)
Landru (1963)
Ophélia (1963)
Code Name: Tiger (1964)
Marie-Chantal vs. Doctor Kha (1965)
Six in Paris (segment "La Muette") (1965)
Our Agent Tiger (1965)
Line of Demarcation (1966)
The Champagne Murders (1967)
The Road to Corinth (1967)
Les Biches (1968)
The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
This Man Must Die (1969)
The Butcher (1970)
The Breach (1970)
Just Before Nightfall (1971)
Ten Days' Wonder (1971)
Dr. Popaul (1972)
Wedding in Blood (1973)
The Nada Gang (1974)
Pleasure Party (1975)
Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)
Death Rite (1976)
The Twist (1976)
Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)
Blood Relatives (1978)
Violette Nozière (1978)
The Horse of Pride (1980)
The Hatter's Ghost (1982)
The Blood of Others (1984)
Chicken with Vinegar (1985)
Inspecteur Lavardin (1986)
Masks (1987)
The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Story of Women (1988)
Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Dr. M (1990)
Madame Bovary (1991)
Betty (1992)
The Eye of Vichy (1993)
Hell (1994)
La Cérémonie (1995)
The Swindle (1997)
The Color of Lies (1999)
Merci pour le chocolat (2000)
The Flower of Evil (2003)
The Bridesmaid (2004)
Comedy of Power (2006)
A Girl Cut in Two (2007)
Bellamy (2009)

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