Spotlight on a Murderer 1961 123movies

Watch: Pleins feux sur l’assassin 1961 123movies, Full Movie Online – When he learns his days are numbered old count Hervé de Kéraudren decides to hide in a secret alcove and to die there, just to annoy his heirs. As a result of his body not being found the latter will have to wait for five years until they can inherit the count’s money. Very upsetting indeed, all the more as they are required to keep up the Kéraudren estate in the meantime. To collect money, nephews and nieces organize a Son et Lumière show at the manor while busily looking for the missing corpse. But, unexpectedly, they get killed in turns. Murders or accidents? Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline and his cousin Edwige investigate and finally succeed in exposing the culprit. And, the count’s body being found by chance, all goes back to normal..
Plot: An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count’s body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count’s body.
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A decidedly minor affair
Closer to Agatha Christie than to Boileau-Narcejac who wrote the original story and collaborated with Franju on the screenplay, “Spotlight on a Murderer” is a decidedly minor affair, entertaining for what it is but unlikely to set the cinematic world on fire. For starters, it’s got a fairly ridiculous plot, (even Christie would have balked at this one); an old count, about to die, hides himself away in a secret room in his chateau so that his relatives won’t find his body and will have to wait 5 years for their inheritance. Naturally the corpses soon start piling up. Poiret or Miss Marple would have sorted it out in no time.

delightful and playful feel of this charming feature
Considering this is Georges Franju’s third feature, coming only a year after Eyes Without a Face and with a script by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac of Les Diaboliques and Vertigo fame, this is a surprisingly slight film. But there is mystery, charm and wonder throughout, helped enormously by the fantastic Breton castle setting. It is the soundtrack that quickly alerts the viewer to a musical box element of magic that will fun through the film that is at once dramatic with several deaths and slightly comedic at the same time. There is a charming on set featurette included on the Arrow Blu-ray disc that has the various cast members smiling and laughing, even Jean Louis Trintignant, and seems to epitomise the delightful and playful feel of this charming feature.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director Georges Franju
Writer Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Georges Franju
Actors Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch
Country France
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
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Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
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Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
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Printed Film Format 35 mm