The Wages of Sin (French: Le salaire du péché) is a 1956 French drama film directed by Denys de La Patellière and starring Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Pascal and Jeanne Moreau. A film noir, it was adapted from the 1949 novel Emily Will Know by the American crime writer Nancy RutledgeWalker-Morrison p.241 It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul-Louis Boutié.
Synopsis In La Rochelle Jean, an ambitious journalist, marries Isabelle the daughter of a wealthy shipowner but finds her cut out any inheritance. Later when he has discovered that she has been secretly added back into her father's will, he dreams about killing him and scares the old man into a heart attack. The only witness to the crime is the shipowner's nurse Angele who he seduces and now becomes his lover and accomplice, plotting to kill Isabelle so that they can claim the inheritance.
Cast Danielle Darrieux as Isabelle Lindstrom Jean-Claude Pascal as Jean de Charvin Jeanne Moreau as Angèle Ribot Jean Debucourt as Frank Lindstrom Marcel Bozzuffi as un marin présidant aux obsèques Michel Etcheverry as Docteur Maroual Jean Lanier as Le pasteur Christian Lude as Benoît Julien Verdier as Le libraire Georges Chamarat as Le médecin Pierre Morin as M. Logan, le signataire
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Bibliography Walker-Morrison, Deborah. Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
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