''Ten Days' Wonder'' (french: La Décade prodigieuse) is a 1971 French murder-mystery film directed by

Claude Chabrol Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ...

and starring

Michel Piccoli Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide vari ...

Anthony Perkins Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor, director, and singer. Perkins is best remembered for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense thriller '' Psycho'', which made him an influential ...

, and

Orson Welles George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his innovative work in film, radio and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential f ...

. It is based on the novel '' Ten Days' Wonder'' by

Ellery Queen Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1929 by American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee and the name of their main fictional character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve ...

. It follows the same story of the novel with the exception of detective Ellery Queen being changed to Paul Regis (

). It was the fourth film that Welles and Perkins appeared in together since ''

The Trial ''The Trial'' (german: Der Process, link=no, previously , and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and pr ...

'' in 1962.

Cast

as Charles Van Horn *

as Paul Regis *

Marlène Jobert Marlène Jobert (born 4 November 1940) is a French actress and author. Life and career Jobert was born in Algiers, Algeria, to a Sephardic Jewish and Pied-Noir family, the daughter of Eliane Azulay and Charles Jobert, who served in the French A ...

as Helene Van Horn *

as Theo Van Horn *

Tsilla Chelton Tsilla Chelton (21 June 1919 – 15 July 2012) was a French actress of theatre and film, famous for playing the main role in 1990 film Tatie Danielle, in which she was nominated for a Cesar award and as an elderly Dominican in Soeur Sourire. B ...

as Theo's mother *

Guido Alberti Guido Alberti (20 April 1909 Birth name: Guido Renato Vittorio Alberti. – 3 August 1996) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1963 and 1993. Selected filmography * ''Wild Love'' (1956) - Sor Alberto (uncredited) * ...

as Ludovic *

Ermanno Casanova Ermanno is an Italian masculin given name. It is a variant of the name Herman. People bearing the name include: * Ermanno Stradelli (1852–1926), Italian explorer, geographer and photographer * Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948), Italian compo ...

as One-Eyed Old Man * Mathilde Ceccarelli as Receptionist

References

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* 1971 films 1971 crime drama films Films directed by Claude Chabrol French crime drama films Italian crime drama films 1970s mystery drama films Films with screenplays by Paul Gégauff Films based on American novels English-language French films English-language Italian films 1970s English-language films 1970s French films 1970s Italian films Ellery Queen films {{mystery-film-stub