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...
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| Alain Delon as Marc |
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| Jane Fonda as
Melinda |
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| Alain Delon as Marc and Jane Fonda as
Melinda |
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| 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
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| Jane Fonda as
Melinda |
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| Jane Fonda and Alain Delon on the set |
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| Lola Albright as
Barbara and Alain Delon as Marc |
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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.
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