À Double Tour [Leda, Web of Passion]

N.p. Times Films, 1959 / 1961. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1959 French film, "À double tour," here under the US release title "Leda," also released in the US as "Web of Passion." Each photographs with provenance stamps on the versos.

Based on the 1952 novel, "The Key to Nicholas Street," by Stanley Ellin. Monsieur Marcoux, patriarch of a grand family estate and living with his wife and grown children, has an affair with the beautiful Italian artist Leda. Leda is found murdered, and police suspect the milk man, but Marcoux' daughter's fiancé suspects someone else.

Director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol's third feature film, his first in color, and first psychological thriller, the genre that would define his career for the next five decades.

Shot on location in Aix-en-Provence, France.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with faint creasing.

[Book #161868]