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Cul-de-sac is a British film of genre Drama directed by Roman Polanski released in USA on 7 november 1966 with Donald Pleasence
Cul-de-sac (1966)
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Add to a movie listCul-de-sac is a 1966 British psychological comic thriller directed by the Franco-Polish director Roman Polanski. It was his second film in English, written by himself and Gérard Brach.
The cast includes Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran, Iain Quarrier, Geoffrey Sumner, Renée Houston, William Franklyn, Trevor Delaney, Marie Kean. It also features Jacqueline Bisset (credited as Jackie Bisset) in a small role, in her second film appearance. The black and white cinematography is by Gil Taylor.
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The film begins with gruff American gangster Dickey pushing his broken-down car along a causeway through rising seawater while his eccentric companion Albie lies inside, bleeding from a gunshot wound after a bungled robbery. Cut off by the unexpected rising tide, they are on the only road to a bleak and remote tidal island (Lindisfarne in Northumberland), where, in a dark castle on a hilltop, a highly neurotic Englishman named George lives with his pretty and promiscuous young French wife Teresa. Dickey disconnects the phone lines and proceeds to hold the two hostage while awaiting further instructions from his underworld boss, the mysterious Katelbach.Actors
Donald Pleasence
(George)
Françoise Dorléac
(Teresa)
Lionel Stander
(Richard)
Jack MacGowran
(Albie)
Jacqueline Bisset
(Jacqueline)
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