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Monday, June 23, 2008
Les Diaboliques - July 18, 6:30pm

Les Diaboliques is a classic thriller from suspense master henri-Georges Clouzot. It came out in 1955 with a twist ending so shocking the end credits requested viewers not to disclose the plot to those who hadn't seen the film.

SYNOPSIS: From the source novel, CELLE QUI N'ETAIT PLUS, by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, the setting is a provincial boys school. The school is run by the dictatorial Michel Delassalle and his gentle, brutalized wife, Christina, who has a heart condition. If she dies the school will belong to him. Delassalle is openly having an affair with a teacher, Nicole Horner, and has taken to beating her as well. Together the two women plot to murder Delassalle. After the two women drown him in a bathtub, and drop his body into the school's swimming pool, all is calm until the pool is drained and his body can't be found.

This movie consistently appears on "greatest film" lists, including Entertainment Weekly's Greatest 100 Movies of All Time, Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments, and the IMDB user voted Top 250.

1 hour and 56 minutes.
 
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