The Wages of Sin (1956)
"Le salaire du péché" (original title)

Director:

Denys de La Patellière

Writers:

Roland Laudenbach, Nancy Ruthledge (novel),

Stars:

Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Pascal, Jeanne Moreau

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Danielle Darrieux	...	Isabelle Lindstrom
Jean-Claude Pascal	...	Jean de Charvin
Jeanne Moreau	...	Angèle Ribot
Jean Debucourt	...	Frank Lindstrom
Marcel Bozzuffi	...	(as Marcel Bozzufi)
Michel Etcheverry	...	Docteur Maroual
Jean Lanier	...	Le pasteur
Christian Lude	...	Benoît
Pierre Morin
Julien Verdier	...	Le libraire
Georges Chamarat	...	Le médecin

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

based on novel

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

11 July 1956 (France)

Also Known As:

En de duivel wilde het

Company Credits

Production Co:

Films Roger Richebé, Société Française de Cinématographie (SFC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

The wages of sin,it's death...

...that's what an ominous sentence ,at the beginning of the movie ,tells us.It's from St Paul's epistles,we hear.It's true that one of the characters (Darrieux,the cheated heiress)is not far from bigotry.Her hubby(Pascal) wants the cake and eat it,so he kills his father-in-law -in a very original way:knowing,he suffers of the heart,he scares him to death;one should notice that nevertheless Clouzot used the trick much better in his classic "les diaboliques"-.Then he's getting ready to kill the wife to be able to live with more attractive nurse (Moreau).

It's 1956,in the pre-nouvelle vague days and the "cinema de qualité" was the trademark of the French cinema but it's obvious that there were two kinds of "cinema de qualité".The great one,which the nouvelle vague did not surpass (Duvivier,Clouzot,Becker,Decoin ) and the academic one which Denys de la Patelliere is part of ."Le salaire du péché" is a rather mediocre flick saved by the actors and the scene of the "murder" .De La Patelliere oddly thought Darrieux was "ugly"-He must have been blind!- and he would cast her again as a spinster in an awful "les yeux de l'amour" a couple of years later.