The Passion of Slow Fire

Georges Simenon (novel)
Édouard Molinaro (director)
Jean Anouilh (screenwriter)
Jean Desailly, Alexandra Stewart, Monique Mélinand (starring)

N.p. Trans-Lux, 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1961 French film. Provenance stamp on the verso.

Based on the 1952 novel "La Mort de Belle" by Georges Simenon. Jean Desaily plays everyman Stéphane Blanchon, a professor living a quiet life with his wife Christine in Geneva, until a beautiful American student, Belle, living next door, is found strangled to death.

Shot on location in Geneva, Switzerland and Val-de-Marne, France.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Selby, France.


[Book #162066]