Slideshow
MAGNET OF DOOM
France, 1963
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel
Based on a novel by Georges Simenon
In French with English subtitles
Approx. 102 mins. DCP.
“Belmondo plays Michel Maudet, a failed boxer who goes to the United States as secretary/bodyguard to Dieudonne Ferchaux (Charles Vanel), an aging financier forced to leave France by an impending scandal.” – John Wakeman, World Film Directors Volume 2
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film