Crime Does Not Pay (1962)
- Original title
- Le crime ne paie pas
- Directed by
- Gérard Oury
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 2h 38m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 14 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This French-Italian film tells four separate stories. Each episode involves beautiful women and shows how jealousy and revenge can lead to death.
anthologicaldark-humoredepisodicsuspensefulclassicthematicmid-tempo
What happens
Le Crime ne paie pas (US title: Crime Does Not Pay, UK title: Gentle Art of Murder) is a 1962 French drama portmanteau film directed and partly written by Gérard Oury. It consists of four separate episodes, each with its own cast and writers but sharing common themes of beautiful women, jealousy, revenge and death. From these dark tales centred on leading actresses, Oury switched to buddy comedies which remain among the most-loved and successful films in the history of French cinema. Louis de Funès, here playing a barman whose English is incomprehensible, starred in them, as did English male leads like David Niven and Terry-Thomas. The writing team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, behind the third episode, had provided the stories for two 1950s masterpieces, Les Diaboliques (1955) and Vertigo (1958). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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