A witness in the city

a witness in the city is a French police film, carried out by Edouard Molinaro in 1959.

Synopsis

His wife having been killed by one named Verdier of which it was the mistress, Ancelin is avenged by killing it, so that one will be able to accept a suicide. But while leaving to its victim, Ancelin heurtre with Lambert, a radio taxi which does not suspect that it transports the murderer. Decided to eliminate this witness, Ancelin rents a car and comes poster in front of at Lambert, which it deals with. Succeeding in being made pass for a customer, it gets into the radio operator taxi and Lambert, who recognized it, is made eliminate. These colleagues radio taxi having heard the discussion between him and Ancelin, take in hunting this last and end up cutting down it…

Data sheet

Title of turning: S.O.S Radio taxi, Died of a witness
Italian Title: Appuntamento idiot it delitto
Realization: Edouard Molinaro
Scenario, Adaptation: Edouard Molinaro, Gerard Oury, Alain Poiré, Georges Tabet, according to the novel of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
Dialog: Georges and André Tabet
Assistant realizer: Pierre Cosson
To advise artistic: Marcel Romano
Production: Gaumont, Free-London-Films, Paris-Union-Films (Paris) - Streak-Film, Tempo-Film (Rome)
Producing: Alain Poiré, Henry Deutschmeister
Directing of production: Robert Sussfeld
Distribution: Gaumont
Photography: Henri Decaë, assisted of Jean-Paul Schwartz
Operator: Jean Rabier
Assembly: Monique Isnardon and Robert Isnardon
Decorations: Georges Levy
Sound: Robert Biart
Music: Barney Wilen, Kenny Dorham, Kenny Clarke
Make-up: Billie Bonnard
Photographer of plate: Jean Schmidt
Script girl: Helly Stérian
Manager: Hubert mérial
Turning from January 19th to March 15th, 1959
Year: 1959
Lasted: 86 minutes
Kind: Police officer
Comings out date: May 8th, 1959

Distribution

Lino Ventura: Ancelin, the murderer of Verdier
Sandra Milo: Liliane, promised in marriage of Lambert
Free Fabrizi: Lambert, the radio taxi of night
Jacques Berthier: Pierre Verdier
Daniel Ceccaldi: The foreign customer
Robert Dalban: Raymond, a taxi driver
Micheline Luccioni: Germaine, a radio taxi
Janine Darcey: The owner of the hotel
Jacques Monod: The lawyer of Verdier
Michel Etcheverry: The examining magistrate
Jean Daurand: Bernard, the taxi driver
Rene Hell: The grandfather
Jacques Jouanneau: The hirer out of cars
Robert Castel: Bob the Clipper
Paul Bisciglia: A taxi driver
Ginette Pigeon: Muriel, the prostitute
Francoise Brion: Jeanne Ancelin, the mistress of Verdier
Genevieve Cluny: The announcer
Ginette Pigeon: Muriel
Rodolphe Marcilly : Leon
Jean Lara: The director of the radio taxis
Joelle Janin: A standartist
Claire Nicole: A standartist
Martine Reichenbach: An operator
Henri Belly: Louis
Gerard Darrieu: Pierre, the colleague of Ancelin
Charles Bouillaud: A friend of Raymond
Billy Kearns: An American soldier
Gilded Fraud: A prostitute
Michel Thomas: The customer of the prostitute
Sacha Lighter: The young man éméché
Micheline Gary: A brown customer of Lambert
Henri Hammer: A customer in love
Rodolphe Marcilly: Leon
Paul Pavel: The inspector Pécharel
Edouard Francomme: A passenger of the subway
Jean Valmence: The man with the white car
Nicole Alexandre
Dany Jacquet
Jacques Mancier
Andre Dumas
Bruno Balp: Barnum, the caretaker
Jean-Jacques Steen: A gendarme
Alain Nobis: The author of the accident with Verdier
Michele Vérez: An operator
Chantal Deberg: An operator
Martine Moreau: An operator
Louisette Chaufaille: An operator
Bernard Charlan: A bar
Guy Pierrault: The gatekeeper of Striptease
Jimmy Perrys: A bar
Jacques Préboist: A traveller of the subway
Jean Ferrat: A traveller of the subway
Albert Daumergue: A traveller of the subway

External bond

a witness in the city on Internet Movie Database

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