The Restless and the Damned
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Directed by | Yves Allégret |
Produced by | Robert Dorfmann Lee Robinson |
Written by | René Wheeler |
Based on | novel Manganese by François Ponthier |
Starring | Edmond O'Brien Richard Basehart |
Music by | Henri Crolla André Hodeir Ray Ventura |
Cinematography | Carl Kayser Henri Persin Louis Stein Giles Bonneau |
Edited by | Albert Jurgenson |
Production
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Silverfilm (France)
Australian Television Enterprises (Australia) |
Release dates
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15 October 1959 (France) |
Running time
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98 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English French |
Box office | 767,540 admissions (France)[1] |
The Restless and the Damned (also known as L'Ambitieuse) is a 1959 French-Australian film co produced by Lee Robinson. It was shot on location in Tahiti and the Tuamotu Islands. There are French and English-language versions.
Synopsis
In Tahiti, an amibitious woman, Dominique, promotes the fortunes of her husband, George, by extracting money from George's family to finance his operations and seducing a prospective business partner. But when George decides to leave her for another woman, Claire, she tries to kill him.[2]
Cast
- Edmond O'Brien as Buchanan
- Richard Basehart as George Rancourt
- Andrea Parisy as Dominique
- Nicole Berger as Claire
- Nigel Lovell as Andre
- Reg Lye as Mathews
- Jean Marchat as Uncle Albert
- Denise Vernac as Aunt Edwige
Production
The film was shot in late 1958. Originally Lee Robinson was to direct the English-language version but after a few days Yves Allégret directed both.[3]
Rafferty and Robinson contributed ₤40,000 of the film's budget, coming from hire of studio facilities to two films shot in Tahiti and their involvement in several episodes of the US documentary series, High Adventure.[4]
Release
The film was a box office failure and did not achieve cinema release in England, the USA and Australia and ended the feature film partnership of Chips Rafferty and Lee Robinson.[5] It was sold to American TV under the title The Climbers.
References
- ↑ French box office hits of 1959 at Box Office Story
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- ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p227
- ↑ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press, 1989, p203
- ↑ 'King of the Coral Sea: Lee Robinson in interview with Albert Moran' Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 1 no 1 (1987)
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Restless and the Damned at IMDb
- The Restless and the Damned at National Film and Sound Archive
- The Restless and the Damned at Oz Movies
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