Retour de manivelle is a 1957

1957 in film

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue-Awards:...

 French-language motion picture crime drama directed by Denys de La Patellière

Denys de La Patellière

Denys de La Patellière is a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Nantes.-Filmography as director:* 1955 : Les Aristocrates with Pierre Fresnay...

 who co-wrote screenplay with Michel Audiard, based on novel by James Hadley Chase

James Hadley Chase

James Hadley Chase is the best-known pseudonym of the British writer Rene Brabazon Raymond who also wrote under the names James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, and Raymond Marshall. Chase is one of the best known thriller writers of all time...

. The film stars Michèle Morgan

Michèle Morgan

Michèle Morgan is a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades.- Career :Morgan was born Simone Renée Roussel in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, a western suburb of Paris....

, Daniel Gélin

Daniel Gélin

Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French actor, occasional director and screenwriter.-Early life:Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire. When he was 10 his family moved to Saint-Malo where Daniel went to college until he was expelled for 'uncouthness'. His father then found him a job in a shop that...

 and Michèle Mercier

Michèle Mercier

Michèle Mercier, is a French actress. In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Mario Bava, Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin...

Synopsis

Penniless painter Robert Mabillon rescues the rich man Eric Freminger at evening, when he is trying to throw under the wheels of a car. After having got 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 its host and his seductive wife, Helen. Some time later, he receives the visit of the latter, its intimate ordered to leave as soon as possible to their homes ...

Cast

• Michèle Morgan: Hélène Fréminger
• Daniel Gélin: Robert Montillon
• Bernard Blier
  Bernard Blier
  Bernard Blier was a French character actor. His rotund features and premature baldness allowed him to often play cuckolded husbands in his early career. He proved to be one of France's most versatile and sought-after character actors, performing interchangeably in comedies and dramas...
  
  : Le commissaire Plantavin
• Peter van Eyck
  Peter van Eyck
  Peter van Eyck, born Götz von Eick , was a German-American actor.-Biography:...
  
  : Eric Fréminger
• Michèle Mercier
  Michèle Mercier
  Michèle Mercier, is a French actress. In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Mario Bava, Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin...
  
  : Jeanne
• Clara Gansard

Production crew

• Director: Denys de La Patellière
• Writer: Denys de La Patellière 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).

External links

• Retour de manivelle at Alice Cinema