Rene Clement again directs Alain Delon, this time in Joy House, a 1964 film that covers a lot of genres - thriller, noir, suspense, and romance.
Delon plays a criminal on the run. He enters a place for homeless people on the Riviera and two women serve soup there, played by Lola Albright and Jane Fonda.
The women bring him to Albright's mansion -- she's a wealthy woman who works at saving people. Fonda is her cousin and falls hard for Delon and tries to seduce him. Meanwhile, someone is trying to poison him and his former gang knows where he is and is out to get him.
Interesting film, with the highly underrated Lola Albright giving an excellent performance as a beautiful but tough woman. Fonda, who says her French wasn't very good, is excellent as well as gorgeous. Of course Delon was better looking than both of them, and while his character is attracted to the Albright character, I don't know why he wasn't attracted to Jane.
The end of this film is wild and really brilliant.
The film explores the idea of prison. Sometimes even without bars, you can be a prisoner.
Delon plays a criminal on the run. He enters a place for homeless people on the Riviera and two women serve soup there, played by Lola Albright and Jane Fonda.
The women bring him to Albright's mansion -- she's a wealthy woman who works at saving people. Fonda is her cousin and falls hard for Delon and tries to seduce him. Meanwhile, someone is trying to poison him and his former gang knows where he is and is out to get him.
Interesting film, with the highly underrated Lola Albright giving an excellent performance as a beautiful but tough woman. Fonda, who says her French wasn't very good, is excellent as well as gorgeous. Of course Delon was better looking than both of them, and while his character is attracted to the Albright character, I don't know why he wasn't attracted to Jane.
The end of this film is wild and really brilliant.
The film explores the idea of prison. Sometimes even without bars, you can be a prisoner.