The lady in the car with glasses and gun
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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 |
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Director | Anatole Litvak |
script | Richard Harris |
production |
Raymond Danon Anatole Litvak |
music | Michel Legrand |
camera | Claude Renoir |
cut | Peter Thornton |
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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."
"After a tough start, the complicated thinking construction becomes confused and full of holes in the end."
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
- ↑ The lady in the car with glasses and rifle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 463/1970