French filmmaker Rene Clement presents Alain Delon as a petty criminal on the run from the underground. On the Rivera, he seeks refuge in a flophouse whose soup line is served by Jane Fonda...
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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Jane Fonda | ... | Melinda | |
| Alain Delon | ... | Marc | |
| Lola Albright | ... | Barbara | |
| Sorrell Booke | ... | Harry | |
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Carl Studer | ... | Loftus |
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André Oumansky | ... | Vincent |
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Arthur Howard | ... | Father Nielson |
| George Gaynes | |||
| Annette Poivre | ... | Employee | |
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Berett Arcaya | ... | Diana |
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Marc Mazza | ... | The Corsican |
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Jacques Bézard | ... | Napoleon |
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Jean-Pierre Honoré | ... | Schneider |
| Georges Douking | ... | Clochard (as Douking) | |
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Del Negro | ... | Mick (as Negro) |
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French filmmaker Rene Clement presents Alain Delon as a petty criminal on the run from the underground. On the Rivera, he seeks refuge in a flophouse whose soup line is served by Jane Fonda and Lola Albright. The two women move him to a Gothic mansion owned by Albright, a millionairess with a Salvation Army complex. Fonda, her cousin, is hot for him and repeatedly attempts to seduce him while someone is attempting to poison him; and his murderous former associates have got wind of his whereabouts. Written by alfiehitchie
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The Women of the "Joy House" Allowed Him Every Freedom...Except the Freedom to Leave! See more »Certificate:
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Marc: Then we'd never be done.
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Written by Lalo Schifrin & Peggy Lee
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When the car with two people goes over the cliff in the convertible, you can clearly see that only one person (the driver) is in the car. See more »Quotes
Melinda: Not bad. But you still have progress to make. You have to lean how to clean everything. Everything that was used.Marc: Then we'd never be done.
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Theme From Joy House (Just Call Me Love Bird)Written by Lalo Schifrin & Peggy Lee
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FranceRelease Date:
November 1964 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Joy House See more »Company Credits
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Cité Films, Compagnie Internationale de Productions Cinématographiques (CIPRA) See more »
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I never saw the English dubbing of this film, but I saw the French original and it is superlative. The music by Lalo Shiffrin is absolutely groundbreaking and a promise of "missions impossible" to come. The photography and editing only give Godard's "Breathless" a knowing passing reference but are way ahead of anything the so-called New Wave (with its stuttering scripts, faulty story-telling, amateur production values and intellectual pretensions) could ever come up with. You'll think you're watching outtakes of "A Hard Day's Night" and the film would still be better than most of today's US suspense-actioners if it hadn't been for the invention of the steadycam. You haven't truly lived until you have experienced Jane Fonda's French-speaking virginal sex kitten act. A taut thriller, extremely modern, from a filmmaker who was always synonymous with the principle of "quality first". Like many French film classics, it is inspired by those oh-so-exotic British/US "romans noirs" (crime novels). And it is a statement on the cold fact that women are about to take over the world and that those lovely little menzipoos can only be relied on for violence and sex.