The Lame Devil (film)

The Lame Devil
FrenchLe Diable boiteux
Directed bySacha Guitry
Written bySacha Guitry
Produced byJean Mugeli
StarringSacha Guitry
Lana Marconi
Émile Drain
Henry Laverne
Maurice Teynac
Narrated bySacha Guitry
CinematographyNicolas Toporkoff
Edited byJeannette Berton
Music byLouis Beydts
Production
company
Union Cinématographique Lyonnaise (UCIL)
Distributed byCompagnie Parisienne de Location de Films, Gaumont
Release date
  • 29 September 1948 (1948-09-29)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The Lame Devil (UK: The Devil Who Limped;[1] original title: Le Diable boiteux, French for "the devil with a limp") is a 1948 French black-and-white historical film written and directed by Sacha Guitry. A biography of the titular French diplomat Talleyrand (1754–1838), it stars Guitry in the lead role. Originally forbidden by the French censor[2] and turned into a play, the film went on to be released into six languages.

  1. ^ Tertiary sources: BFI, The Lame Devil.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Guitry1948 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).