Movielogr
The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Overview
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn’t know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister’s suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
Length 120 minutes
Actors
Claude Rich | Françoise Arnoul | Charles Aznavour | Jean-Claude Brialy | Danielle Darrieux | Alain Delon | Fernandel | Mel Ferrer | Micheline Presle | Madeleine Robinson | Dany Saval | Michel Simon | Lino Ventura | Georges Wilson | Louis de Funès | Lucien Baroux | Roland Armontel | Maurice Biraud | Jean Carmet | André Gabriello | Denise Gence | Germaine Kerjean | Roger Nicolas | Claude Nollier | Noël Roquevert | Henri Vilbert | Henri Tisot | Claude Dauphin | Marcel Dalio | Edmond Ardisson | Yves Barsacq | Gaby Basset | Betty Beckers | Anne Beguet | René Clermont | Madeleine Clervanne | Mireille Darc | Maurice Teynac | Hénia Suchar | Jean Gras | Clément Harari | Dany Jacquet | Robert le Béal | Jean Luisi | Claudine Maugey | Albert Michel | Gaston Modot | Jean-Paul Moulinot | Armande Navarre | Hubert Noël | Dominique Paturel | Pierre Paulet | Pierre Sergeol | Josette Vardier | Sherry Young | Claude Piéplu