Saturday, September 26, 2009

"Inferno"

Test footage (I assume) from an unflinished film project by Henri-Georges Clouzot:

4 comments:

Tulkinghorn said...

Romy Schneider getting intimate with a Slinky!

I can't help but think that helpless giggles would have been the audience's reaction....

Clouzot was a master of melodramatic realism. This seems like something else. Still, I'll rent the documentary just to see what Ms. Schneider looks like now as she nears seventy....

David Chute said...

She probably isn't looking great.

Died in 1982.

And if her relative youth is for some reason inherently creepy, try this:

She's about 18, and her leading man is the guy who played the photographer in "Peeping Tom:"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBMUejfr7Pg&feature=related

Tulkinghorn said...

A new reason to be glad we won the war. People on a lake in funny hats and lederhosen yodeling.

GoJoe said...

Slinky IS a wonderful toy...