''Rope Around the Neck'' () is a Canadian crime drama film, directed by
Pierre Patry
Pierre Patry (November 2, 1933 – June 7, 2014) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Hull, Quebec, Patry began his career in the theatre as an actor and a playwright. He was a founding member of the Canadian Assoc ...
and released in 1965.
Gerald Pratley
Gerald Arthur Pratley (September 3, 1923 – March 14, 2011) was a Canadian film critic and historian. Piers Handling"Gerald Arthur Pratley" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', September 18, 2011. A longtime film critic for the Canadian Broadcasting Cor ...
, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 48. Based on a novel by
Claude Jasmin
Claude Jasmin (10 November 1930 – 28 April 2021) was a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and writer.
While very prolific, with almost 50 published titles to his credit, he is most famous for his 1972 novel ''La Petite Patrie'', an autobiogra ...
, the film stars
Guy Godin
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* That Guy (...), the New Zealand street performer Leigh Hart
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* Guy, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet
* Guy, Arkansas, US, a city
* Guy, Indiana, US, an unincorpo ...
as Léo Longpré, a man who is on the run from the police after murdering his mistress Suzanne (
Andrée Lachapelle
Andrée Lachapelle, (November 13, 1931 – November 21, 2019) was a French Canadian actress. Born in Montreal, she trained at age 14 at the Studio XV theatre school under Gerard Vleminckx, later attended teacher's college and taught elementary s ...
).
The cast also includes Henri Norbert,
Jean Duceppe
Jean Hotte-Duceppe (1923–1990) was a stage and television actor from Montreal, Quebec.
Born on 25 October 1923 to a family of local shopkeepers in working-class Montreal, Jean Duceppe came to the theatre with no formal training and was compl ...
,
Denise Pelletier
Denise Pelletier, Order of Canada, OC (May 22, 1923 – May 24, 1976) was a Canadian actress.
Early life
Pelletier was born in 1923 in Saint-Jovite, Quebec to Albert Pelletier, a literary critic, and Marie-Reine Vaugeois. She had a brother, Gille ...
,
Tania Fédor
Tania Fédor (3 November 1905 – 1 December 1985) was a French actress who played a number of leading roles during the 1930s and early 1940s in films such as ''Fantômas'' (1932).Hardy p.125 She later settled in Canada where she worked on Fren ...
,
Guy L'Écuyer
Guy L'Écuyer (July 26, 1931 - September 20, 1985) was a Canadian actor from Montreal, Quebec. He was most noted for his performance in André Forcier's 1983 film ''Au clair de la lune'', for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Act ...
and
Jean-Louis Millette
Jean-Louis Millette (; 4 January 1935 – 29 September 1999) was a Canadian French-speaking actor and writer.
Millette was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Millette's television career spanned over thirty years: he was a cast member of many ...
.
The film was not well-received by critics, which contributed to Patry's decision to stop making narrative films.
[Janis L. Pallister, ''The Cinema of Québec: Masters in Their Own House''. ]Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (FDU Press) is a publishing house under the operation and oversight of Fairleigh Dickinson University, the largest private university in New Jersey, which has international campuses in Vancouver, British Columb ...
, 1995. . p. 334.
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1965 films
Canadian crime drama films
Quebec films
French-language Canadian films
1960s Canadian films
1965 crime drama films
Films based on Canadian novels
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