{"id":13674,"date":"2020-08-23T22:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T02:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13674"},"modified":"2020-08-23T22:56:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T02:56:20","slug":"le-corbeau-1943-henri-georges-clouzot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13674","title":{"rendered":"Le Corbeau (1943, Henri-Georges Clouzot)"},"content":{"rendered":"

WWII-era French town descends into paranoia when someone is writing letters accusing other townspeople of various crimes. I’m a fan of the sharp-looking Clouzot fast-paced b\/w thrillers, though I watched this while tired and my notes make little sense (“everyone in church got forged letters arranging them to meet… no 13 suicided after letter… Rolande is someone”).<\/p>\n

Key players:<\/p>\n

Doctor Germaine: Pierre Fresnay, lead dude of The Devil’s Hand<\/a><\/em>
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Hotgirl Denise: Ginette Leclerc, “stupid wife” of the remade Late Mathias Pascal<\/em>
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Old Man Vorzet: Pierre Larquey, a Diabolique professor, 8th billed so nobody guesses he’s the villain<\/em>
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Young Goodwife Laura: Micheline Francey of a late 30’s Phantom Carriage<\/a> remake<\/em>
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Dave Kehr:<\/p>\n

Polished, impersonal work, it puts forward little more than a spirit of free-floating misanthropy. Remade (and improved) by Otto Preminger in 1951 as The Thirteenth Letter<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WWII-era French town descends into paranoia when someone is writing letters accusing other townspeople of various crimes. I’m a fan of the sharp-looking Clouzot fast-paced b\/w thrillers, though I watched this while tired and my notes make little sense (“everyone in church got forged letters arranging them to meet… no 13 suicided after letter… Rolande […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,34,429,611,2693],"class_list":["post-13674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-france","tag-henri-georges-clouzot","tag-paranoia","tag-raven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13717,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674\/revisions\/13717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}