Enough Rope (French: Le meurtrier) is a 1963 French-Italian-West-German neo noir crime film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux and Gert Fröbe. The film is an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1954 novel The Blunderer.
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Plot
Walter Saccard and Melchior Kimmel are both suspected for the murder of their wives and set out to prove their innocence.
Cast
Marina Vlady as Ellie
Robert Hossein as Corby
Maurice Ronet as Walter Saccard
Yvonne Furneaux as Clara Saccard
Gert Fröbe as Melchior Kimmel
Paulette Dubost as Helen Kimmel
Jacques Monod as Le commissaire / Police Commissioner
Harry Meyen as Tony
Clara Gansard as La bonne
Laurence Badie as La serveuse
Release
The film was released in France on 11 January 1963 through Tamasa Distribution. It had 946,050 admissions in France.