Ascenseur pour l'echafaud
(DVD) 

D' apres le roman de [Based on the novel by] Noël Calef, Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (pré-adaptation de l'auteur) [first adaptation by the author].

Originally produced as a French motion picture in 1957.

Special features: theatrical trailers, new interview with actor Jeanne Moreau, archival interviews with director Louis Malle, actors Maurice Ronet and Jeanne Moreau, footage of Miles Davis and Louis Malle from the soundtrack recording session.

Booklet includes essays "Louis Malle on the Ground Floor" by Terrence Rafferty, "Malle on Malle: 'Elevator to the Gallows'" [interview by Philip French], "Elevator to the Gallows" by Vincent Malle.

Images de Henri Decae ; montage, Léonide Azar ; musique originale de Miles Davis ; decors, Rino Mondellini et Jean Mandaroux.

Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen, Sylviane Aisenstein, Micheline Bona, Gisèle Grandpré, Jacqueline Staup, Marcel Cuvelier, Gérard Darrieu, Charles Denner, Hubert Deschamps, Jacques Hilling, Marcel Journet, François Joux, Ivan Petrovich, Félix Marten, Lino Ventura.

Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She spends the night wandering the Parisian streets alone. Meanwhile brash teenager Louis and his girlfriend Veronique decide to "borrow" the car, which launches a disastrous stream of coincidence with sinister consequences.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital mono; aspect ratio 1.66:1, enhanced for 16:9 widescreen televisions.

In French with optional subtitles in English.