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Un témoin dans la ville

Un témoin dans la ville

1959Movie⏱️ 1h 29m
CrimeDramaThriller
7
IMDB Rating
1,108 votes

Seeking vengeance on his wife's former lover and assassin, a man sets in motion a string of killings.

Director
Édouard Molinaro
Writers
Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Gérard Oury
Stars
Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Franco Fabrizi
Release Date
May 6, 1959
Language
French, English, Italian
Country
France, Italy
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Lino Ventura
Lino Ventura
as Ancelin
Sandra Milo
Sandra Milo
as Liliane
Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi
as Lambert - le radio-taxi de nuit
Jacques Berthier
Jacques Berthier
as Pierre Verdier
Daniel Ceccaldi
Daniel Ceccaldi
as Le client du taxi italien
Robert Dalban
Robert Dalban
as Raymond - un chauffeur de taxi
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Jacques Jouanneau
as Le loueur de voitures
Micheline Luccioni
Micheline Luccioni
as Germaine - une radio taxi
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Ginette Pigeon
as Muriel - la prostituée
Janine Darcey
Janine Darcey
as La propriétaire de l'hôtel

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.66 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Jardin d'acclimatation, Bois de Boulogne, Paris 16, Paris, France
Production
Franco London Films, Paris Union Films, Société Nouvelle des Établissements Gaumont (SNEG)

🏷️ Keywords

murderrevengevigilante justicemistressthrown off a train

🎯 Categories

FrenchCrimeDramaThriller

⭐ Featured Review

Gripping Polar stained in noirish style of a chase thru a Paris night!!
by elo-equipamentos2025-07-27
8/10

"On late fifties the Italian descendant Lino Ventura was paving a solid career at French cinema, at this period he already could choose some roles offered, so to keep his persona intact playing an assassin he asking for the screenwriters humanize Ancelin as we can certify in several sequences, thus audience get sympathy for the ill-fated husband who drew up a foolproof plan to punish his wife's lover after the justice release him of judgement over a premeditated killing throwing her off the moving train, however as old saying states there's no prefect crime, so an unexpected detail as..."

💡 Did You Know?

Filmed with the co-operation of the 400 radio taxi drivers of Paris.

📖 Synopsis

Seeking vengeance on his wife's former lover and assassin, a man sets in motion a string of killings.