| The Exquisite Cadaver | |
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| Original title | Las crueles |
| Directed by | Vicente Aranda |
| Screenplay by | Vicente Aranda Antonio Rabinad |
| Based on | The short story Bailando para Parker by Gonzalo Suárez |
| Produced by | Sidney Pink Stanley Abrams Carlos Durán |
| Starring | Capucine Carlos Estrada Judy Matheson Teresa Gimpera |
| Cinematography | Juan Amorós |
| Edited by | Maricel Bautista Bautista Treig |
| Music by | Marco Rossi |
| Distributed by | Morgana Films |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
The Exquisite Cadaver (Spanish: Las crueles) AKA: The Cruel Ones is a 1969 Spanish film noir psychological thriller film directed by Vicente Aranda, based on the short story Bailando Para Parker written by Gonzalo Suárez.[1] The plot follows a well-to-do publisher and family man who begins to receive severed body parts in the mail two years after his mistress committed suicide. Along with one of these bloody parcels is a letter of blackmail from the dead woman's former lesbian lover, who seeks vengeance.
- ^ Torres, Diccionario del cine Español, p. 160