Elevator to the Gallows

About the movie

Florence is madly in love with ex-soldier Julien and they secretly make a scheme to kill her husband – Julien’s boss – Simon. All details are well thought through. But after staging Simon’s suicide in his office, Julien finds himself trapped in the office elevator and fails to make the agreed rendezvous with Florence. Meanwhile, Julien’s car is stolen outside the building and the thieves end up shooting a tourist at a motel. Both crimes’ evidence points to one man...
“Elevator to the Gallows” was Malle’s feature film debut, when he was only 24 years old. The film is considered an important work at the base of the French New Wave and European New Modern Cinema. Notable is also the breakthrough of Jeanne Moreau and haunting score by Miles Davis.

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