Deadlier Than the Male (1956 film)

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Voici le temps des assassins

Directed by	Julien Duvivier
Screenplay by	Julien Duvivier Charles Dorat Pierre-Aristide Bréal
Based on	a story by Julien Duvivier Charles Dorat Maurice Bessy
Produced by	René Bezard Raymond Borderie Pierre Cabaud
Starring	Jean Gabin Danièle Delorme
Cinematography	Armand Thirard
Edited by	Marthe Poncin
Music by	Jean Wiener
Release date	13 April 1956 (1956-04-13)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Voici le temps des assassins (French for "This is the time for murderers") is a 1956 French crime film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin and Danièle Delorme. The title is a line of Matinée d'ivresse^[1] - part of Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud. The film was released as Deadlier Than the Male in the United States and as Twelve Hours to Live in the UK.^[2] It is a dark tale of a young and pretty femme fatale who ruins the life of a man and kills his best friend.

Plot

In Les Halles, in the heart of Paris, the long-divorced André Chatelin, an honest and respected man who runs a successful restaurant, is visited by an unknown young woman. She says she is Catherine, the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle, who has died leaving her homeless and penniless. André gives her a room and a job, but she soon starts abusing his kindness. She sows discord between André and his young friend Gérard, a medical student who is like a son to him. And she starts stealing money to support her mother, who is not dead but an ex-prostitute who is now a hopeless drug addict in a sordid hotel.

Feigning drunkenness one night, she gets André to help her to her bedroom and undress her, with the result that he marries her. As his heir she would be rich and free, so the next plan of her and her mother is to get rid of André. She decides to use Gérard, because of his medical knowledge, and swiftly seduces him. When he refuses to kill André, however, she strangles him and then pushes his car into the river with his corpse and his dog César. A grieving André identifies the body, leaving his telephone number with the police, who ring him to ask if he knows the woman seen in Gérard's car. From the description, it is obvious to him that it was Catherine. When he confronts her, she runs off to her mother's hotel. The dog César, who escaped drowning, follows her there and kills her.

Cast

Jean Gabin as André Chatelin
Danièle Delorme as Catherine
Robert Arnoux as Bouvier
Liliane Bert as Antoinette
Gérard Blain as Gérard Delacroix
Lucienne Bogaert as Gabrielle

Notes

^ Matinée d'ivresse, retrieved 28 Nov 2016
^ Voici le temps des assassins at IMDb

External links

Voici le temps des assassins at IMDb
‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› Voici le temps des assassins at AllMovie
Deadlier Than the Male at the TCM Movie Database
Voici le temps des assassins at “Cinema-francais“ (French)
Deadlier Than the Male movie review at The New York Times Last accessed: October 4, 2016.

Films directed by Julien Duvivier

Filmography

The Agony of the Eagles (1922)
The Hurricane on the Mountain (1922)
The Abbot Constantine (1925)
The Red Head (1925)
The Man with the Hispano (1926)
The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans (1927)
The Maelstrom of Paris (1928)
The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower (1928)
The Divine Voyage (1929)
La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin (1930)
David Golder (1931)
Moon Over Morocco (1931)
Here's Berlin (1932)
The Five Accursed Gentlemen (1932)
The Red Head (1932)
A Man's Neck (1933)
The Little King (1933)
Maria Chapdelaine (1934)
Golgotha (1935)
La Bandera (1935)
Le Golem (1936)
They Were Five (1936)
The Man of the Hour (1937)
Pépé le Moko (1937)
Life Dances On (1937)
The Great Waltz (1938)
The End of the Day (1939)
The Phantom Carriage (1939)
Lydia (1941)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
The Heart of a Nation (1943)
Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
The Impostor (1944)
Panique (1946)
Anna Karenina (1948)
The Sinners (1949)
Black Jack (1950)
Under the Sky of Paris (1951)
Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
Holiday for Henrietta (1952)
The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
On Trial (1954)
Marianne of My Youth (1955)
Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
The Man in the Raincoat (1957)
Lovers of Paris (1957)
The Female (1959)
Marie-Octobre (1959)
The High Life (1960)
Boulevard (1960)
The Burning Court (1962)
The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
Highway Pick-Up (1963)
Diabolically Yours (1967)

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