Enough Rope is a movie directed by Claude Autant-Lara in 1963 and based on the book The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith, first published in 1954. The movie features Gert Fröbe, Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein, Harry Meyen, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux, and others.
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Storyline
One winter evening, Melchior Kimmel kills his wife, Hélène, on a road on the Côte d’Azur. Although the police suspect him of murdering him, he is not arrested for lack of evidence. A few months later, another woman, Clara Saccard, is found dead in a bus station. This time around, the suspect is her husband, Walter, who coincidentally is a bookstore customer owned by Kimmel.
Movie vs Book
Year
1963
Minutes
104
Movie Rate
6.20
Source: IMDb
Movie
Enough Rope
Original title: Le meurtrier
Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Country: France
Year: 1963
Length: 1h44m
Year
1954
Pages
288
Book Rate
7.46
S: Goodreads
Book
The Blunderer
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Country: USA
First published in: 1954
Length: 288 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Andy Goddard
User polls & recommendations
“I was impressed with Lynch's Dune, but it was not what I had dreamed of. I'll go back to the book and to the images that came out when I read it.”
DENIS VILLENEUVE (Filmmaker, Scriptwriter)
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