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Help ID'ing This Film...?
I have a very vivid memory of a film I caught being broadcast on some French TV channel while visiting as a young child. I'm hoping this might ring a bell with someone here.
Here are the fragments I retained:
The movie is old - definitely in B&W and focuses on a couple (husband & wife?) who are living in the countryside somewhere in a very large house or castle. An uninvited visitor shows up and overstays his welcome, cause a ton of turmoil between the couple. He may have been a thief or a squatter or something, but in my mind, the visitor in a stranger and creates a ton of tension.
The film ends with the castle / giant home burning down - this is in my mind, the final shot of the movie.
I know that's almost nothing to go on...but maybe it triggers something for you, masters of the internet.
I would love any leads - it's haunted me for most of my life.
Thank you in advance,
Alex
Malagaaunike
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3 months ago
Hi @wolfinthewall
Could this Actor or Actress be one of the couple?
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Malagaaunike
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3 months ago
or could this be ... @wolfinthewall
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Malagaaunike
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3 months ago
Could you narrow the decade @wolfinthewall ?
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JRD
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3 months ago
Some of those Roger Corman gothic films from the 1960's had stories (usually based on Poe) where a third person enters a couple's life (sometimes the couple is married; sometimes they are siblings). These films also usually end with the castle burning at the end. However, I am pretty sure they are all in color though. For example:
The House of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Terror
Good luck with your search.
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Coyote444
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24 days ago
Well, when were you a child?? We're not psychic, you know! Well I am, professionally, but it's $350 for a half hour consultation so I'm not about to whip out my "special gift" for something you should have told us to begin with.
So were you a child in 1940?? That's, like, when Gabin made films!
Or were you a kid in like 1970 and were you watching an old movie and not a contemporary one?
All this is important. Alors!?
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