Web of Passion

À double tour
Directed by	Claude Chabrol
Written by	Claude Chabrol Paul Gégauff Stanley Ellin (novel)
Starring	Antonella Lualdi Jean-Paul Belmondo Bernadette Lafont Madeleine Robinson
Music by	Paul Misraki
Cinematography	Henri Decaë
Release dates	1959 (1959)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	1,446,479 admissions (France)

Web of Passion (also released as Leda, original French title: À double tour) is a 1959 French suspense thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel The Key to Nicholas Street by American writer Stanley Ellin. It was Chabrol's first film in the thriller genre, which would be his genre of choice for the rest of his career. The film had a total of 1,445,587 admissions in France.

Plot

Leda (Antonella Lualdi), the mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committing the crime. But Marcoux's daughter's fiance (Jean-Paul Belmondo) suspects that Leda may have been murdered by someone else.

Cast

• Madeleine Robinson as Thérèse Marcoux
• Antonella Lualdi as Léda
• Jean-Paul Belmondo as Laszlo Kovacs
• Jacques Dacqmine as Henri Marcoux
• Jeanne Valérie as Elisabeth
• Bernadette Lafont as Julie, the maid
• André Jocelyn as Richard Marcoux
• Mario David as Roger, the milkman
• László Szabó as Laszlo's friend

Notes

Belmondo plays a character named Laszlo Kovacs, which was the alias of his character Michel Poiccard in Breathless

External links

Web of Passion at IMDb