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Released
1957 · FILM

The Man in the Raincoat

QUELLE MADNESS! A triumph of simplicity over duplicity, under the deft direction of Julien Duvivier. A macabre comedy distilled in the cinema connoisseur's taste for the savory.

Directed by
Runtime
106 min
Language
FR
ComedyMysteryThriller

Synopsis

In the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrived after a crime. Perceived by some people leaving the scene of the crime covered by his raincoat, he became the only suspect for the police. His only hope is to discover the murderer before is name is mentionned publicly, specially in front of his wife.

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Marthe PoncinShot by Roger HubertScored by Georges Van ParysDesigned by Robert Clavel

Also known as

  • Der Mann im Regenmantelde
  • The Man in the Raincoaten
  • El hombre del impermeablees
  • L'uomo dall'impermeabileit

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