La Poison [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Sacha Guitry Sacha Guitry

Overview

Sacha Guitry both wrote and directed the witty black comedy La Poison. This time, however, Guitry does not star in the film, relinquishing that honor to Michel Simon. Through a series of circumstances and plot twists too numerous to mention, an enterprising man (Simon) manages to get away with murdering his wife, even though he cheerfully admits his guilt in court. The murderer's defense strategy is targeted towards every man who has ever wished that his wife would simply disappear. If this notion seems familiar, it is because La Poison was loosely remade in 1966 as the Jack Lemmon comedy How to Murder Your Wife. While the original is more clever, the remake has more popular appeal.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/22/2017
UPC:	0715515202312
Original Release:	1951
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:25:00
Sales rank:	16,379

Special Features

New interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on writer-director Sacha Guitry's influence on French cinema Sixty-minute episode of Cinéastes de notre temps from 1965 featuring interviews with some of Guitry's collaborators On Life On-screen: Miseries and Splendour of a Monarch, a sixty-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and actor Michel Simon

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Michel Simon	Paul Louis Victor
Jeanne Fusier-Gil	Actor
Jean Debucourt	Aubanel
Louis de Funès	André Chevillard
Pauline Carton	The Mercer's Wife
Jeanne Fusier-Gir	Actor
Jacques Varennes	Actor
Jacques DeFeraudy	Actor
Jean Duvaleix	Actor
Germaine Reuver	Actor
Louiguy	Composer

Technical Credits

Sacha Guitry

Sacha Guitry	Director,Screenwriter
Alain Poiré	Producer