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Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'echafaud)

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Genre:	Drama, Suspense/Thriller
Release Date:	June 24, 2005
Running time:	88 minutes
Cast:	Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall
Director:	Louis Malle
Producer:	Jean Thuillier
Writer:	Noel Calef, Louis Malle
Distributor:	Rialto Pictures

Description: Louis Malle's debut feature was arguably the first film of the French New Wave. Jeanne Moreau stars as a woman waiting for her lover to return from murdering her husband. Their "perfect crime," however, goes spectacularly awry.

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