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Lift to the Scaffold (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama, Suspense/Thriller
Release Date:June 10, 1961
Running time:88 minutes
Cast:Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall
Director:Louis Malle
Producer:Jean Thuillier
Writer:Noël Calef, Louis Malle
Distributor:Times Film Corporation

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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