Early in the film, Simon sees a group of kids playing and asks Pelle what they are doing. Pelle explains that they are playing "Skin the fool". During the sacrifice scene at the end of the film, Mark's skinned and mutilated body is carried into the temple with a jester's hat atop his head. The kids game may have been derived from the actual practice of "skinning the fool" for the Mid-summer sacrifice.
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Henri-Georges Clouzot was convinced that Simone Signoret was playing the character incorrectly because she, the actress, knew the ending of the movie and, thus, was giving away too much to the audience with her characterization. One day on the set, Clouzot said angrily, "I should have never let you read the end of the script!"
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Simone Signoret hadn't read her contract closely before signing it and didn't realize she was to be paid for only eight weeks, regardless. After sixteen weeks and a wrap, she found out Henri-Georges Clouzot was only going to pay her for the contractually obligated eight. She protested but the outcome didn't change. By the end of the shoot, according to Signoret, she, Véra Clouzot and Henri were no longer on speaking terms. Paul Meurisse and Jean Renoir, who was next door filming French Cancan (1955), were the only ones who made the shoot bearable for her.
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When director Henri-Georges Clouzot bought the film rights to the original novel, he reportedly beat Alfred Hitchcock by only a matter of hours.
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Véra Clouzot's second movie.
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Johnny Hallyday's film debut.
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Last film of Jean Témerson before his death.
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In reality, Simone Signoret did not know how to drive. Hence the reason why Véra Clouzot is seen doing all the driving in the film.
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Véra Clouzot went up and down in spirits and when Henri-Georges Clouzot and Simone Signoret would begin to fight, she would "arbitrate or pour oil on troubled waters, depending on the state she was in." The three of them, not unnoticed by observers on the set, mirrored the three characters of the movie, with Henri-Georges Clouzot standing in for Michel.
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The film is based on Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac's novel "Celle qui n'était plus" (She Who Was No More). Alfred Hitchcock also attempted to buy the rights to this novel; Boileau and Narcejac subsequently wrote "D'Entre les Morts" (From Among the Dead) especially for Hitchcock, who filmed it as Vertigo (1958).
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Released in the UK in November 1956 under the title "The Fiends" and cut to around 90 minutes on a double bill with "X the Unknown".
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Two women drive from the outskirts of Paris to Niort, the birthplace of director Henri-Georges Clouzot.
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Some twelve weeks into the production, Simone Signoret received notice that rehearsals had begun for a stage version of "The Crucible" in which she was starring. She had originally thought there would be no conflict since the shoot was only supposed to go eight weeks and wrap a solid month before The Crucible rehearsals started. Henri-Georges Clouzot would not rearrange the shooting schedule to accommodate her and she had to go straight from the set to rehearsals for the play, get a few hours of sleep in between (maybe) and start over again.
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An early example of a film featuring a disclaimer at the end, urging the audience not to give away any spoilers.
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The film gained extra notoriety five years later when Véra Clouzot died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 46. Her character in the film suffers from a weak heart.
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French visa # 14131 delivered on 26-1-1955.
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It is believed that Henri-Georges Clouzot actually served rotten fish to Véra Clouzot in order to get a genuine reaction from her.
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