Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Italy
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.
- experiment
- surgeon
- film noir
- black and white
- photograph
- scientist
- transplant
- dove
- ulcer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Pierre Brasseur
Professor Génessier
Alida Valli
Louise
Édith Scob
Christiane Génessier
Juliette Mayniel
Edna Gruber
- Alexandre Rignault — Inspector Parot
- Béatrice Altariba — Paulette Mérodon
- Charles Blavette — Man from the Pond
- Michel Etcheverry — Doctor Lherminier, forensic surgeon
- Claude Brasseur — Police inspector
- Yvette Etiévant — Mother of the little sick man
- René Génin — Emile Tessot
- Lucien Hubert — Man at the funeral
- Marcel Pérès — Man at the funeral
- François Guérin — Doctor Jacques Vernon
- Brigitte Juslin — Juliette (uncredited)
- Directed
- Georges Franju
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 807 ratings
- Studio
- Lux Film, Champs-Élysées Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
