The lady in the car with glasses and gun

Movie
German title	The lady in the car with glasses and gun
Original title	La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	1970
length	105 minutes
Rod
Director	Anatole Litvak
script	Richard Harris
production	Raymond Danon Anatole Litvak
music	Michel Legrand
camera	Claude Renoir
cut	Peter Thornton
occupation
Samantha Eggar : Danielle Lang ("Dany") Oliver Reed : Michael Caldwell John McEnery : Yves-Marie aka Philippe Stéphane Audran : Anita Caldwell Billie Dixon : Tall Girl Bernard Fresson : Jean Yvain Edmond Ardisson : Garage Night Man Yves Barsacq : An agent Marcel Bozzuffi : Manuel Henry Czarniak : Garage Proprietor Claude Vernier : Psychiatrist Robert Deac : Boy in Cassis Raoul Delfosse : American tourist Jacques Fabbri : Doctor Fred Fisher : Danish tourist Gilberte Géniat : village shopkeeper Lisa Jouvet : Danish tourist Yves Pignot : Baptist André Oumansky : Bernard Thorr Maria Meriko : Mrs. Pacaud Martine Kelly : Kiki Jacqueline Porel : secretary Robert Déac : Titou

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and Gun ( La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil ) is a French psychological thriller by Anatole Litvak , 1970 . The novel The lady in the car with sunglasses and rifle (original title: La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil ) comes from Sébastien Japrisot . Petula Clark sings the theme song On the road and its French version Je roule .

content

A young woman is about to take her boss's car to the airport. In the trunk there is a corpse and a rifle, which the heroine Danielle does not know at first. She becomes the pawn of a sinister plot: "Dany" is attacked in the toilet at a gas station and someone breaks her left hand. Then several people claimed that a few hours earlier she had been seen driving in the opposite direction, even though she had not been there. When she finally finds the corpse in her trunk, she begins to doubt her sanity ...

Reviews

"Somewhat confusing but exciting crime adventure with a scary atmosphere."

- Lexicon of international film

"After a tough start, the complicated thinking construction becomes confused and full of holes in the end."

- Protestant film observer

literature

• Sébastien Japrisot : The lady in the car with sunglasses and rifle. Roman (original title: La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil ). German by Gottlieb Knecht . Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2006, 235 pp., ISBN 978-3-7466-2171-5 or ISBN 3-7466-2171-2

Web links

• The lady in the car with glasses and rifle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Soundtrack of the film by Michel Legrand with audio samples

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The lady in the car with glasses and rifle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 463/1970