Sure, you might own The Criterion Collection release, and perhaps have seen the film already, but there’s no better way to watch Louis Malle‘s “Elevator To The Gallows” than on the big screen. And the good news is that Rialto Pictures have given the classic film a new digital restoration, with the movie returning to theaters this summer.

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Starring Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet and Lino Ventura, and featuring an absolutely fantastic score by Miles Davis, the story follows a woman and her lover who conspire to kill her husband, only for things to not go according to plan.

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In 1958, Malle released his feature-length debut, “Ascenseur pour l’échafaud,” aka “Elevator To the Gallows” starring the startling beautiful Jeanne Moreau, who became an international star after the film and would continue working with him for years afterwards in such classics as the existential ennui blueprint, “The Fire Within” and the controversial and scandalous for its time,”The Lovers.”

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