LIFT TO THE SCAFFOLD

Original French 7 1/8 inch x 5 1/8 inch Still of director LOUIS MALLE rehearsing a scene with YORI BERTIN for his 1958 Thriller LIFT TO THE SCAFFOLD (ASCENSEUR POUR L’ECHAFAUD), based on the novel by Noël Calef.

For his feature debut, twenty-four-year-old Louis Malle brought together superb casting, evocative cinematography by Henri Decaë, and a now legendary jazz score by Miles Davis. Taking place over the course of one restless Paris night, Malle’s richly atmospheric crime thriller stars Moreau and Maurice Ronet as lovers whose plan to murder her husband (his boss) goes awry, setting off a chain of events that seals their fate.

The still is in fine condition.