The Wages of Sin
Directed byDenys de La Patellière
Written byRoland Laudenbach
Denys de La Patellière
Based onEmily Will Know by Nancy Rutledge
Produced byRoger Ribadeau-Dumas
Roger Richebé
StarringDanielle Darrieux
Jean-Claude Pascal
Jeanne Moreau
CinematographyHenri Alekan
Edited byMonique Isnardon
Robert Isnardon
Music byMaurice Leroux
Production
companies
Films Roger Richebé
Société Française de Cinématographie
Distributed byFilms Roger Richebé
Release date
20 April 1956
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The Wages of Sin (French: Le salaire du péché) is a 1956 French drama film directed by Denys de La Patellière and starring Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Pascal and Jeanne Moreau. A film noir, it was adapted from the 1949 novel Emily Will Know by the American crime writer Nancy Rutledge[1] It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul-Louis Boutié.

Synopsis

In La Rochelle Jean, an ambitious journalist, marries Isabelle the daughter of a wealthy shipowner but finds her cut out any inheritance. Later when he has discovered that she has been secretly added back into her father's will, he dreams about killing him and scares the old man into a heart attack. The only witness to the crime is the shipowner's nurse Angele who he seduces and now becomes his lover and accomplice, plotting to kill Isabelle so that they can claim the inheritance.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Walker-Morrison p.241

Bibliography

  • Walker-Morrison, Deborah. Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.


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