Directed by Radley Metzger
In adapting Prosper Mérimée’s novella to the big screen, director Radley Metzger hit on the formula and style that would lead him to his best work: Adapt a literary classic in a gorgeous European locale with high polish and a goodly helping of sophisticated sex and seduction. Uta Levka smolders in every scene as the wild thing that lures a Spanish cop (Claude Ringer) into a life of carnality and crime.
Producer: Radley Metzger. Based on the novella by Prosper Mérimée. Screenwriter: Jesse Volgel. Cinematographer: Hans Jura. Editor: Humphrey Wood. Cast: Uta Levka, Claude Ringer, Carl Möhner, Barbara Valentin, Walter Witz.
35mm, color, 90 min.
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