{"id":41111,"date":"2026-02-09T10:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41111"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:06:10","slug":"diabolique-1955-directed-by-henri-georges-clouzot-starring-simone-signoret-vera-clouzot-paul-meurisse-and-charles-vanel-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41111","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Diabolique&#8221; (1955) directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, V\u00e9ra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, and Charles Vanel \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z020926zview_diabolique.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"736\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Diabolique <\/strong><\/em>(1955)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Henri-Georges Clouzot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Henri-Georges Clouzot, J\u00e9r\u00f4me G\u00e9ronimi, Ren\u00e9 Masson, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Grendel,<\/strong> based on \u00a0CELLE QUI N&#8217;\u00e9TAIT PLUS by <strong>Boileau-Narcejac<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Simone Signoret, V\u00e9ra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Don&#8217;t Reveal the Ending!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michel Delassalle is a cruel man.\u00a0 Michel is the Principal of a boys&#8217; boarding school owned by his wife, Christina.\u00a0 Christina also works as a teacher at the school.\u00a0 Michel enjoys flaunting his authority over his teachers including his wife.\u00a0 He gets off on humiliating them at every opportunity.\u00a0 To make matters worse, Michel has an on-going affair with Nicole Horner, another teacher at the school, who he also mistreats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surprisingly, Christina and Nicole have developed a friendship&#8230; and a plan.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve devised the perfect albi so when they kill Michel, they will be above suspicion.<\/p>\n<p>Or so they thought.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alfred Hitchcock reportedly wanted the rights to the original novel but was beaten by just a few hours by Henri-Georges Clouzot who went on to direct <em>Diabolique<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">V\u00e9ra Clouzot died suddenly of a heart attack five years after the release of <em>Diabolique<\/em>.\u00a0 She was only 46. Her character in the film suffered from a weak heart.<\/p>\n<p><em>Diabolique<\/em> was ahead of it&#8217;s time.\u00a0 It inspired filmmakers from William Castle to Alfred Hitchcock.\u00a0 And what a twist ending!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Diabolique<\/strong><\/em> (1955) rates 4 of 5 stars.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z020926zview_diabolique2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabolique (1955) Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Screenplay: Henri-Georges Clouzot, J\u00e9r\u00f4me G\u00e9ronimi, Ren\u00e9 Masson, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Grendel, based on \u00a0CELLE QUI N&#8217;\u00e9TAIT PLUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41112,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41111\/revisions\/41112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}