![]() ![]() Pauline had committed suicide and Madeleine’s husband fears she may do the same. The wife, Madeleine Gévigne, seems to be obsessed with a long-dead ancestress, the mysterious Pauline Lagerlac. He is worried about his wife’s odd behaviour. An old acquaintance whom he hasn’t seen for years contacts him out of the blue asking for help in a delicate matter. As a result a fellow policeman was killed. He had been chasing a suspect but suffered an attack of vertigo and lost his nerve. Flavières had been a cop but had been forced to resign after an unfortunate incident on a rooftop. ![]() The changes are fairly minor in themselves, but significant especially with regards to the motivations of the characters. The movie followed the storyline laid out in the novel surprisingly closely. There are major plot twists that I don’t wish to spoil so I’ll be a vague as possible about the plot. Sadly this one seems to be only one readily available in an English translation.Īs is the case with the movie caution is needed when discussing the plot. They also wrote the book on which Clouzot’s Les Diaboliques was based and I’ve wanted to read one of their novels for years. The novel was published in an English translation in 1956 under the title The Living and the Dead and Hitchcock’s film followed a couple of years later. ![]() Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac’s Vertigo (original French title D'entre les morts) is of course the source material for Hitchcock’s famous movie. ![]()
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