The Madwoman of Chaillot (Original title)The Mad Woman of Chaillot (Alternative title)
Date: 1969 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Bryan Forbes
Synopsis: An eccentric Countess learns of a conspiracy set up by venal business-men to destroy Paris in order to get the oil that they have discovered underneath the city. The Countess lures the greedy plutocrats to her cellar and dumps them in the sewers.
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Releases
Date: 1969Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 142 mins Length: 12792 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1969 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Bryan Forbes
Synopsis: An eccentric Countess learns of a conspiracy set up by venal business-men to destroy Paris in order to get the oil that they have discovered underneath the city. The Countess lures the greedy plutocrats to her cellar and dumps them in the sewers.
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Releases
Date: 1969Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 142 mins Length: 12792 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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[Director - Started/Replaced]: John Huston, Production Company: Commonwealth United Productions Ltd., Production Company: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Executive Producer: Henry T. Weinstein, Producer: Ely Landau, Associate Producer: Anthony B. Unger, Production Manager: Henri Jacquillard, [Production Team Member]: Pierre Spengler, Assistant Director (1st): Louis-Alain Pitzelé, Assistant Director (2nd): Alain Bonnot, Script Supervisor: Isabelle Byers, Continuity: Catherine Prévert, Casting: Margot Capelier, Screenplay: Edward Anhalt, Adaptation: Maurice Valency, Based on the play by: Jean Giraudoux, Director of Photography: Claude Renoir, Director of Photography: Burnett Guffey, Camera Operator: Philippe Brun, 2nd Camera: Léon Bellet, Focus Puller: Guy Delattre, Focus Puller: Yves Mirkine, Editor: Roger Dwyre, Assistant Editor: Michèle Nény, Assistant Editor: Carole Thillier, Production Designer: Ray Simm, Art Director: Georges Petitot, Set Dresser: Dario Simoni, Prop Man: Pierre Roudeix, Wardrobe Designer: Rosine Delamare, Wardrobe Supervisor: Laurel Staffell, Chief Make-up: Monique Archambault, Chief Hairdresser: Alex Archambault, Titles: Robert Ellis Films, Music composed and conducted: Michael J. Lewis, Special Orchestrations: Wally Stott, Sound Mixer: Bill Daniels, Boom Operator: Gus Lloyd, Dubbing Mixer: Gordon Mccallum, Sound Editor: Janet Davidson, Studio: Les Studios de la Victorine (Nice)
Cast
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Katharine Hepburn (Countess Aurelia, Madwoman of Chaillot), Paul Henreid (the general), Oscar Homolka (the commissar), Yul Brynner (the chairman), Richard Chamberlain (Roderick), Edith Evans (Josephine of La Concorde), Donald Pleasence (the prospector), Joellina Smajda (prospector's girlfriend), Henri Virlojeux (the pedlar), John Gavin (the reverend), Gordon Heath (the folksinger), Nanette Newman (Irma), George Hilsdon, Henri Cogan (waiter), Gerald Sim (Julius), Gilles Ségal (deaf mute), Gaston Palmer (juggler), Harriett Ariel (flower girl), Danny Kaye (the ragpicker), Jackie Farley, Sabine Lods (a poule), Manuella von Oppen (newsgirl), Margaret Leighton (Constance of Passy), Giulietta Masina (Gabrielle of Sulpice), Charles Boyer (the broker), Claude Dauphin (Dr Jadin), Fernand Gravey (police sergeant), Bernard Woringer (policeman), Catherine Berg (Communist secretary), Jacques Marin, Christian Duvaleix ([uncredited])