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The Fire within
- Title
- The Fire within [videorecording] / Nouvelles Editions de Films/Arco.
- Publication
- New York : New Yorker, 1964.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | VTH 1700 F | Offsite |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (108 min.) : sd., b&w.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Drawing on the ghosts of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, this drama is a suspenseful account of the last forty-eight hours of a man marked by suicide. A self-absorbed alcoholic writer leaves a clinic determined to kill himself, but decides to discover if any of his friends can give him a reason to change his mind. The author, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, whose 1931 novel formed the basis of the film, killed himself in 1945 after having collaborated with the Nazis.
- Alternative Title
- Le Feu Follet.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Feature films.
- Note
- In French with English subtitles.
- French title: Le Feu Follet.
- Based on the novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle.
- Credits (note)
- Director, writer, Louis Malle; photography, Ghislain Cloquet; music, Erik Satie.
- Performer (note)
- Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps, Alexandra Stewart.
- Title
- The Fire within [videorecording] / Nouvelles Editions de Films/Arco.
- Imprint
- New York : New Yorker, 1964.
- Credits
- Director, writer, Louis Malle; photography, Ghislain Cloquet; music, Erik Satie.
- Cast
- Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps, Alexandra Stewart.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Malle, Louis, 1932-1995, film director.Malle, Louis, 1932-1995, screenwriter.Ronet, Maurice, 1927-1983, actor.Moreau, Jeanne, 1928-2017, actor.
- Added Title
- Le Feu Follet.
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 1700 F