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Shock and awe: Reassessing Clouzot's classic thriller

Read the Empire Movie review of Les Diaboliques. A great 'hold your breath' suspense film that shocked the world and became a...

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If it had accomplished nothing else, "Diabolique" would deserve our affection for two reasons: It contains the original of Peter Falk's TV character Columbo,

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Although this has a few hallucinating bits of terror, the film is primarily a creaky-door type of melodrama [from the novel Celle qui n'etait plus by Pierre ...