Taglines: The end of an affair is sometimes sudden and shattering as a crack in a mirror!
Crack in the Mirror movie storyline. Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin (Orson Welles) is a loutish construction worker with an unhappy wife, Eponine (Juliette Greco). The wife becomes involved with a swarthy working man, Larnier (Bradford Dillman), and their passion knows no boundaries of caution or safety. Eventually, Eponine’s and Larnier’s lust drives them to madness, and they murder Hagolin.
The second tale concerns an up-and-coming young lawyer, Claude (Dillman), whose mentor is a highly successful veteran attorney, Lamerciere (Welles), with a beautiful young wife named Florence (Greco). Claude finds himself defending Larnier and Eponine, while Lamerciere dies of a heart attack after he discovers that Florence has been unfaithful to him with Claude. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck also wrote the screenplay, under the pen name Mark Canfield.
Crack in the Mirror is a 1960 drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. The three principal actors, Orson Welles, Juliette Gréco, and Bradford Dillman, play dual roles in two interconnected stories as the participants in two love triangles. Supporting cast are Alexander Knox, Catherine Lacey, William Lucas, Maurice Teynac, Austin Willis, Eugene Deckers, Vivian Matalon and Yves Brainville.
The script was ostensibly written by producer Darryl F. Zanuck (under his frequent pseudonym “Mark Canfield”), but in his 1993 autobiography Just Tell Me When to Cry, Richard Fleischer revealed that it was in fact ghost-written by Jules Dassin, who was unable to work openly in the American film industry at the time, because he was on the Hollywood blacklist.
Crack in the Mirror (1960)
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Orson Welles, Juliette Gréco, Bradford Dillman, Alexander Knox, Catherine Lacey, William Lucas, Maurice Teynac, Austin Willis, Eugene Deckers, Vivian Matalon, Yves Brainville
Screenplay by: Darryl F. Zanuck
Production Design by:
Cinematography by: William C. Mellor
Film Editing by: Roger Dwyre
Costume Design by: Hubert de Givenchy
Art Direction by: Jean d’Eaubonne
Music by: Maurice Jarre
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: 20th Century-Fox
Release Date: May 19, 1960
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