Rope Around the Neck

Rope Around the Neck
FrenchLa corde au cou
Directed byPierre Patry
Written byPierre Patry
Based onLa Corde au cou by Claude Jasmin
Produced byPierre Patry
StarringGuy Godin
Andrée Lachapelle
Henri Norbert
CinematographyJean Roy
Edited byLucien Marleau
Music byFrançois Cousineau
Production
company
Coopératio
Distributed byFrance Film
Release date
  • November 5, 1965 (1965-11-05)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Rope Around the Neck (French: La corde au cou) is a Canadian crime drama film, directed by Pierre Patry and released in 1965.[1] Based on a novel by Claude Jasmin, the film stars Guy Godin as Léo Longpré, a man who is on the run from the police after murdering his mistress Suzanne (Andrée Lachapelle).[2]

The cast also includes Henri Norbert, Jean Duceppe, Denise Pelletier, Tania Fédor, Guy L'Écuyer and Jean-Louis Millette.

The film was not well-received by critics, which contributed to Patry's decision to stop making narrative films.[3]

  1. ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 48.
  2. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Corde au cou, La – Pierre Patry". Films du Québec, January 1, 2009.
  3. ^ Janis L. Pallister, The Cinema of Québec: Masters in Their Own House. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995. ISBN 9780838635629. p. 334.