The Damned (film)

The Damned (or more precisely These are the Damned ) is a film of Joseph Losey, carried out in 1963, whose title in French version is Damnés , that one should not confuse with the homonymous film of Luchino Visconti.

Synopsis

An American tourist, owner of a boat, making stage in a seaside resort of the South of England, is made tabasser by a group of black wind-breakers, to have approached (and/or approached by) the sister of the gang leader. Collected by passers by, it is taken along in the local de luxe hotel nearest where it meets a couple whose woman, sculptor, return visit to the man to which it reproaches for being too much monopolized not her community activities of which he is obstinated since years nothing to reveal. The American and the young woman flee in boat, and are pursued by the black wind-breakers pétaradant on their motor bikes, but the beautiful one, in prey with its contradictions and its inclinations, decides to return near his/her brother. Their return to ground their reserve of other dangers and surprised that those promised by the small gang of motorcyclists, from which they escape by crossing a fence… that from an army ground.

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Distribution

the chief of the black wind-breakers: Oliver Reed

Availability and state of the copy

A copy restored very recently of this traditional a little forgotten cinema of the fantastic is projected with 2 recoveries, in November 2006, with Amiens, at the time of the 26e edition of the International festival of Film of Amiens which devotes one key period to the studios Britannique S Hammer.

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