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No Exit
Original Title
Huis-Clos- Director: Jacqueline Audry
- Writer: Pierre Laroche; Jean-Paul Sartre
- Producer: Edmond Tenoudji
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Arletty heads the cast of this first film version of Jean-Paul Sartre's existential theater piece No Exit. The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone but themselves for their dismal fate. The Sartre original had only one setting and three characters. Pierre Laroche's screenplay unnecessarily "opens up" the play, adding four more characters and several sequences in the "real" world.
There was a trailer...but, it has since disappeared.
Cast & Characters
Arletty as Ines - une lesbienne;
Franck Villard as Garcin - une belle gouape;
Gaby Sylvia as Estelle Rigault- une infanticide;
Yves Deniaud as Le garcon d'etage;
Nicole Courcel as Olga;
Jean Debucourt as Le general;
Suzanne Dehelly as La vieille dame;
Paul Frankeur as Gomez - le compagnon de Garcin;
Renaud Mary as Le receptionniste de l'hotel;
Jean Murat as Le mari d'Estelle