Taglines: His women always meet their match!
Landru movie storyline. During World War I, a seemingly respectable middle-aged man Henri Landru has devised an ingenious means of obtaining money to supplement his dwindling income. Adopting various assumed names, he lures middle-class women to his villa at Gambais just outside Paris, where he kills them and burns their bodies.
He then helps himself to his victims’ bank accounts so that he can keep his wife, his mistress and his four children in the manner to which they have grown accustomed. Having murdered ten women and one boy, Landru is finally captured and placed before a court of law. Eloquent in his protestations of innocence, he is confident that no jury will condemn a man of such intellect and breeding.
Landru (US title: Bluebeard) is a 1963 French motion picture drama directed by Claude Chabrol. The screenplay was written by Françoise Sagan. The film stars Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux and Hildegard Knef. It was based on the story of French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, who murdered and dismembered more than 10 women during World War I.
Landru (1963)
Directed by: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Charles Denner, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Juliette Mayniel, Stéphane Audran, Mary Marquet, Pierre Vernier, Henri Attal, Serge Bento, André Fouché, Sacha Briquet
Screenplay by: Françoise Sagan
Production Design by: Jacques Saulnier
Cinematography by: Jean Rabier
Film Editing by: Jacques Gaillard
Costume Design by: Maurice Albray
Set Decoration by: Jacques Saulnier
Music by: Pierre Jansen
MPAA Rating: None.
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Release Date: January 25, 1963
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