LA POISON - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1951
• Genre: Comedy, Crime
• Plot: The writer, actor and director Sacha Guitry emerged from the theater to become one of France's best-known and most inventive filmmakers, and La Poison marked his first major collaboration with another titan of the screen, the incomparably expressive Michel Simon. With Guitry's witty dialogue and fleet pacing, this black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener (Simon) and his wife (Germaine Reuver) find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial. Inspired by Guitry's own post-World War II tangle with the law -- a wrongful charge of collaborationism -- La Poison is a blithely caustic broadside against the French legal system and a society all too eager to capitalize on the misfortunes of others.
• Cast: Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Germaine Reuver, Pauline Carton, Albert Duvaleix, Henry Laverne, Jacques de Féraudy, Jacques Derives, Louis de Funès, Luce Fabiole, Yvonne Hébert, Roger Poirier, André Dalibert, Max Dejean, Michel Nastorg, Nicolas Amato, Louis Eymond, Suzanne Dantès, Jacques Morel, Maurice Pierrat, Thérèse Quantin, Marcelle Arnold, Jean Bachelet, Henri Belly, Georges Bever, Robert Dumesnil, Maria Fromet, François Gir, Sacha Guitry, Harry-Max, Claude Jacomet, Fernand Janisse, Raymond Lamy, Odette Lemarchand, Guy Lenoir, Louiguy, Alain Malloire, Michel Malloire, Yannick Malloire, Robert Mercier, P. Paillet, N. Pfaff, Émile Riandreys, René Ribault, Marthe Sarbel, Robert Sussfeld, Maurice Teynac, Jimmy Urbain, M. Urbain, Léon Walther
• Director: Sacha Guitry
• Runtime: 1:25
• Media Format: Movie