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I Spit on Your Grave

Original title: J'irai cracher sur vos tombes
  • 19591959
  • 1h 50m
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5.5/10
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Renate Ewert and Christian Marquand in I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
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After the lynching death of his black brother in Memphis, a light-skinned African-American, heads to a small Southern town, where he draws the attention of a heiress, and learns that the pla... Read allAfter the lynching death of his black brother in Memphis, a light-skinned African-American, heads to a small Southern town, where he draws the attention of a heiress, and learns that the place is as racist as his hometown.After the lynching death of his black brother in Memphis, a light-skinned African-American, heads to a small Southern town, where he draws the attention of a heiress, and learns that the place is as racist as his hometown.
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
272
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
31,757
5,671
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    • Director
      • Michel Gast
    • Writers
      • Boris Vian(screenplay)
      • Jacques Dopagne(screenplay)
      • Louis Sapin(adaptation and dialogue)
    • Stars
      • Christian Marquand
      • Antonella Lualdi
      • Fernand Ledoux
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    • Director
      • Michel Gast
    • Writers
      • Boris Vian(screenplay)
      • Jacques Dopagne(screenplay)
      • Louis Sapin(adaptation and dialogue)
    • Stars
      • Christian Marquand
      • Antonella Lualdi
      • Fernand Ledoux
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    • 6User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Renate Ewert and Christian Marquand in I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
    I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
    I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
    I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
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    I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
    I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
    Antonella Lualdi and Christian Marquand in I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
    I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
    Renate Ewert and Christian Marquand in I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
    Renate Ewert in I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
    Renate Ewert and Christian Marquand in I Spit on Your Grave (1959)

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    Christian Marquand
    Christian Marquand
    • Joe Grant
    Antonella Lualdi
    Antonella Lualdi
    • Lizbeth Shannon
    Fernand Ledoux
    Fernand Ledoux
    • Horace Chandley
    Renate Ewert
    Renate Ewert
    • Sylvia Shannon
    Marina Petrova
    Marina Petrova
    • Sheila
    • (as Marina Petrowa)
    Daniel Cauchy
    Daniel Cauchy
    • Sonny
    Catherine Fonteney
    • Virginia Shannon
    Claude Berri
    Claude Berri
    • David
    Jean Droze
    • Ted
    Gisèle Gallois
    Gisèle Gallois
    • Mona
    Lud Germain
    • Harrison - Le serviteur des Shannon
    • (as Ludovic Germain)
    Monique Just
    • Jay
    Jean Sorel
    Jean Sorel
    • Elmer
    Marie-Blanche Vergnes
    • Janet
    André Versini
    • Lex
    Paul Guers
    Paul Guers
    • Stan Walker
    Christian Boisseau
    • Un gars de la bande de Stan
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Michel Gast
    • Writers
      • Boris Vian(screenplay) (novel)
      • Jacques Dopagne(screenplay)
      • Louis Sapin(adaptation and dialogue)
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    • Trivia
      Boris Vian, the author of the novel on which the movie was based, died during the preview of I Spit on Your Grave (1959). He disowned the adaptation of his novel.
    • Connections
      Featured in Drive-in Follies (1989)
    • Soundtracks
      Blues De Memphis
      Composed and Conducted by Alain Goraguer

      Performed by Alain Goraguer Et Son Ensemble

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    Boris Vian disowned it reportedly...
    I've not read his novel,so I will not argue,but all that I can say is that the film is a complete disaster ;today in France everybody's forgotten all about the movie .Director Michel Gast has made only four movies in total.

    The leads ,Antonella Lualdi and Christian Marquand ,had teamed up the precedent year in Astruc's excellent "Une Vie";but Gast left them to their own devices and it has to be seen to be believed.How could we believe Marquand is a black man with a white skin? (Vian's book was a pastiche ,they say)How could we believe that Daniel Cauchy (see Melville's "Bob le Flambeur") and Jean Sorel (Jean Sorel?) are "rebels without a cause "James Dean style?(the electric chair scene takes grotesque to new limits).And this macho racist man played by Paul Guers?And the old man played by veteran Fernand Ledoux ,the best actor in the whole movie,but in his worst part ever.

    The script is so poor (I do not speak of the lines,particularly those when Guers tells Lualdi she is restive and he will take pleasure in taming her) it's difficult to catch up with the plot.The form is Nouvelle Vague style complete with jazz with borrowings from the American movies (the ending recalls Lang's "You only live once" and too many chase movies).If it's a plea against racism,then it thoroughly fails in its purpose.
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    • Feb 23, 2008

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    • Release date
      • June 26, 1959 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Pljuvaću na vaše grobove
    • Filming locations
      • Studios de la Victorine - 16 avenue Edoard Grinda, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
    • Production companies
      • CTI (Cinema Television International)
      • Société Internationale de Production de Films (SIPRO)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 50 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White

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