Les liaisons dangereuses (1959)

Director:

Roger Vadim

Writers:

Claude Brulé (adaptation)
Choderlos de Laclos (novel)
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Release Date:

18 December 1961 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Loyalty | Teenage Girl | Horse Drawn Sleigh Carriage | Chapel

Cast

Jeanne Moreau	...	Juliette de Merteuil
Gérard Philipe	...	Vicomte de Valmont
Annette Vadim	...	Marianne Tourvel
Madeleine Lambert	...	Mme Rosemonde
Jeanne Valérie	...	Cécile Volanges
Nicolas Vogel	...	Jerry Court
Boris Vian	...	Prévan
Gillian Hills	...	Une amie de Cécile
Paquita Thomas	...	Nicole
Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	Danceny
Simone Renant	...	Mme Volanges
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yves Barsacq	...	(uncredited)
Jacques Brizzio	...	(uncredited)
James Campbell	...	Petit rôle (uncredited)
Michel Dacquin	...	Un invité des Valmont (uncredited)
Pierre Durou	...	(uncredited)
Yvonne Gradelet	...	Une invitée des Valmont (uncredited)
Guy Henry	...	Un inspecteur (uncredited)
Jacques Hilling	...	Un invité des Valmont (uncredited)
Lisa Jouvet	...	(uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Laverne	...	(uncredited)
Serge Marquand	...	Un skieur (uncredited)
Frédéric O'Brady	...	Un diplomate (uncredited)
Renée Passeur	...	Une invitée des Valmont (uncredited)
François Perrot	...	Un invité au cocktail des Valmont (uncredited)
Alexandra Stewart	...	Une amie de Miguel (uncredited)
Nadine Vogel	...	(uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Zola	...	Un réceptionniste de l'hôtel à Deauville (uncredited)

Directed by
Roger Vadim

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Claude Brulé		adaptation
Choderlos de Laclos		novel "Les liaisons dangereuses"
Roger Vadim		adaptation
Roger Vailland		dialogue & adaption
Roger Vailland		screenplay

Original Music by
James Campbell
Duke Jordan
Thelonious Monk

Cinematography by
Marcel Grignon

Film Editing by
Victoria Mercanton

Production Design by
Robert Guisgand

Costume Design by
Gladys de Segonzac

Makeup Department
Micheline Chaperon	....	makeup artist
Simone Knapp	....	makeup artist
Jean Paul Ulysse	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Michel Choquet	....	production manager
Jean-Jacques Lécot	....	assistant production manager
Léopold Schlosberg	....	executive in charge of production (as Leopold Schlossberg)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jean-Michel Lacor	....	third assistant director
Serge Marquand	....	second assistant director
Jacques Poitrenaud	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Henri Berger	....	property master
Jacques Brizzio	....	assistant art director
Jean Forestier	....	assistant art director
Raymond Lemoigne	....	property master
Claude Martin	....	artistic collaboration

Sound Department
Jean Bareille	....	assistant sound
Robert Biard	....	sound
Victor Revelli	....	assistant sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Serge Beauvarlet	....	still photographer
Maurice Delille	....	assistant camera
Raymond Pierre Lemoigne	....	camera operator
André Marquette	....	assistant camera
Marcel Policard	....	chief electrician

Music Department
Art Blakey	....	musician
Kenny Clarke	....	musician
Sam Jones	....	musician
Duke Jordan	....	musician
Maurice Leroux	....	musical advisor
Jimmy Merritt	....	musician
Thelonious Monk	....	musician
Lee Morgan	....	musician
Charlie Rouse	....	musician
Arthur Taylor	....	musician
Bobby Timmons	....	musician
Barney Wilen	....	musician

Other crew
Arcady	....	title designer
Robert Christidès	....	set coordinator
Suzanne Durrenberger	....	continuity
Michèle Reffet	....	administrative secretary
Marcel Romano	....	technical supervisor
Pierre Vouillon	....	exteriors director
Monique Wendling	....	production secretary

Production Companies

• Les Films Marceau-Cocinor

Distributors

• Gala Film Distributors (1962) (UK) (theatrical)
• Royal Films (1960) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Astor Pictures Corporation (1961) (USA) (subtitled)
• Castle Pictures (1990) (UK) (VHS)
• Les Films Ariane

Other Companies

• Editions Marceau  music publishing
• LAX Lab.  special effects

Also Known As:

"Dangerous Love Affairs" - USA (promotional title)

Runtime:

Germany:95 min | USA:106 min | Argentina:105 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16 | UK:X

Company:

Les Films Marceau-Cocinor

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Angels in New York: Episode #1.2" (2010)

A failure nowadays, a success in the past

This is one of the movies (not many) where the remake "Dangerous Liaisons" of Stephen Frears wins by a large margin.

First of all those movie had one Great Actress in Jeanne Moreau. Bur ir as an incompetent Director in Roger VAdim and some miscasts like Gérard Philippe as Valmont. Perhaps the main culprit is "Roger Vailland". I'm am very fond of "Vailland",love is novels (namely "Drôle de Jeu", but I've read them when I was too young. Nowadays I believe that is is the wrong kind of scriptwriter. Also Roger Vadim did not care for literature. Ask Brigite Bardot. This is a semi-failure. See it only id you are a fan of Jeanne Moreau. There is more eroticism in "Journal d'une Femme de Chambre" by Luis Buñuel than here, about "boudain". "morcilla" or just plain English "sausage". The Anglo-Saxons cannot make sausages and the current laws forbid to to it properly..