Spotlight on a Murderer (1961)

Original title

Pleins feux sur l'assassin

Directed by

Georges Franju

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

U

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of heirs gathers in a remote chateau for a reading of their uncle's will. They soon find themselves trapped and hunted one by one by an unseen killer.

mysterioussuspensefulatmosphericslow-burnmelancholicpsychologically tensestylizeddarkly comic

What happens

Spotlight on a Murderer (French: Pleins feux sur l'assassin) is a 1961 French psychodrama/murder-mystery film directed by Georges Franju. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD by Arrow Films in August 2017 in the UK and USA regions in an open-matte 1.37:1 transfer by Gaumont of the film's original 1.66:1 aspect ratio. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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