Tuesday 5 January 2016

1964, Film: “Les félins”

The French thriller "Les félins" (US: "Joy House", UK: "The Love Cage") is released on 12 June 1964 in France. The film, directed and written by René Clément, is based on the novel "Joy House" (1954) by Day Keene and starring Jane Fonda, Alain Delon, and Lola Albright.

Synopsis
Marc (Alain Delon), a little criminal, is on the run from a New York gang. The gang's boss ordered to kill him because Marc had an affair with his wife. At the French Rivera Marc hides in a mission for the poor where Barbara (Lola Albright), a wealthy widow, hires him as her chauffeur. Melinda (Jane Fonda), Barbara's niece, becomes attracted to him...
Alain Delon as Marc
Jane Fonda as Melinda
Alain Delon as Marc and Jane Fonda as Melinda
Director René Clément, Jane Fonda and Alain Delon
Main Cast
  • Jane Fonda as Melinda
  • Alain Delon as Marc
  • Lola Albright as Barbara
  • Sorrell Booke as Harry
  • Carl Studer as Loftus
  • André Oumansky as Vincent
  • Arthur Howard as Father Nielson
Jane Fonda as Melinda
Jane Fonda and Alain Delon on the set
Lola Albright as Barbara and Alain Delon as Marc
Jane Fonda as Melinda, Lola Albright as Barbara and Alain Delon as Marc
(the car is a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith Long Wheel Base LHD Hooper Perspex Top Saloon)
Trivia
  • "Les félins" is the second film René Clément made for MGM, the first one was "Le jour et l'heure" (1963) with Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page, and Michel Piccoli.
  • It was Jane Fonda's first movie in France.


"Les félins" Trailer

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