Cul-de-Sac

Two wounded gangsters on the run descend upon a retired businessman living like a hermit with his young, bored and flirtatious French wife in an old castle on Holy Island, off the Northumberland coast. The arrival of the gangsters disrupts the couple’s eccentric relationship. (Awards: Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, 1966) Cast includes Donald Pleasence, Francoise Dorleac, Jacqueline Bisset, Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran.

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Credits

director

Roman Polanski

producer

Gene Gutowski

production company

Compton

Duration

01:40:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1966

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302532

Language

English

Audience classification

MA

Subject categories

Comedy

Comedy → Black comedy

Crime, Espionage, Justice, Police & Prisons → Kidnapping

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Insanity

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q1637787

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United Kingdom, 1966

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