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Retour de manivelle
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Wikipedia article
'Retour de manivelle' (English title: 'There's Always a Price Tag') is a 1957 French-language motion picture crime drama directed by Denys de La Patellire who co-wrote screenplay with Michel Audiard, based on the 1956 novel 'There's Always a Price Tag' by James Hadley Chase. The film stars Michle Morgan, Daniel Glin and Michle Mercier.
Synopsis
Penniless painter Robert Mabillon rescues rich man Eric Freminger one evening, when he is trying to throw himself under the wheels of a car. After having gotten quite drunk, Mabillon proposes to renew his luxurious villa in Saint-Jean-Cap on the French Riviera. Nevertheless, Freminger convinces him to become his driver. The same night, Mabillon has witnessed a violent dispute between his host and his seductive wife, Helen. Some time later, he receives a visit by the latter, its intimate ordered to leave as soon as possible to their homes ...
Cast
*Michle Morgan: Hlne Frminger
*Daniel Glin: Robert Montillon
*Michle Mercier: Jeanne
*Franois Chaumette: Charles Babin
*Pierre Leproux: M. Bost, le crancier
*Jean Olivier: L' inspecteur-adjoint (as Jean Ollivier)
*Hlne Roussel: Une secrtaire
*Peter van Eyck: Eric Frminger
*Bernard Blier: Le commissaire Plantavin
Production crew
*Director: Denys de La Patellire
*Writer: Denys de La Patellire after the work of James Hadley Chase
*Producer: Jean-Paul Guibert
*Director of photography: Pierre Montazels
Production companies are Cinematografica Associata (Italy) and Films Intermondia (France).
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