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Title

Eyes without a face [motion picture] = Les yeux sans visage / directed by Georges Franju ; screenplay adaptation by writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.

Publication

1959.

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Additional Authors

• Franju, Georges, 1912-
• Boileau, Pierre, 1906-1989.
• Narcejac, Thomas, 1908-1998.
• Brasseur, Pierre, 1905-1972.
• Valli, Alida, 1921-2006.
• Scob, Édith.

Description

3 film reels ( min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.

Summary

A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.

Alternative Title

Yeux sans visage

Subjects

• Feature films > France
• Fathers and daughters > Drama
• Horror films > France
• Foreign films > France
• Plastic surgeons > Drama

Genre/Form

• Feature films – France.
• Foreign films – France.
• Horror films – France.

Note

• Special features include Blood of the beasts, Georges Franju's 1949 short documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris; archival interviews with Franju on horror, cinema, and the making of Blood of the beasts; excerpt from Les grands-pères du crime; theatrical trailers, and stills gallery of rare production photos and promotional material.

Performer (note)

• Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob.

Language (note)

• In French with English subtitles.

Title

Eyes without a face [motion picture] = Les yeux sans visage / directed by Georges Franju ; screenplay adaptation by writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.

Imprint

1959.

Cast

Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob.

Language

In French with English subtitles.

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Added Author

Franju, Georges, 1912-

Boileau, Pierre, 1906-1989.

Narcejac, Thomas, 1908-1998.

Brasseur, Pierre, 1905-1972.

Valli, Alida, 1921-2006.

Scob, Édith.

Branch Call Number

M16 4844 E