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The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama, Suspense/Thriller |
| Release Date: | January 1, 1965 |
| Running time: | 95 minutes |
| Cast: | Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Pascale Roberts |
| Director: | Costa-Gavras |
| Writer: | Costa-Gavras, Sébastien Japrisot |
Description: The first film directed by Costa-Gavras, The Sleeping Car Murders was based on a novel by Sebastien Japrisot. During a Marseilles-to-Paris overnight train trip, a girl is found dead in a sleeping car. As Paris detective Yves Montand steps up his investigation, more and more passengers turn up murdered. The unlikely climax is the only sore point of this otherwise well-wrought mystery. Bereft of the politicizing of Costa-Gavras' later works, The Sleeping Car Murders exhibits the director's fondness for American film noir thrillers. The film first hit Parisian movie screens under the title Compartiment Tueurs.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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