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{{Short description|1967 film by Julien Duvivier}}
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| name = Diabolically Yours
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| director = [[Julien Duvivier]]
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* Julien Duvivier{{sfn|McCann|2017|p=247}}
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| based_on = {{Based on|''Manie de la persécution''|[[Louis Thomas (writer)|Louis Thomas]]}}
| based_on = {{Based on|''Manie de la persécution''|[[Louis Thomas (writer)|Louis Thomas]]}}
| starring = {{plainlist|* [[Alain Delon]]
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* [[Alain Delon]]
* [[Senta Berger]]
* [[Senta Berger]]
* [[Peter Mosbacher]]
* [[Peter Mosbacher]]
* [[Claude Piéplu]]
* Albert Augier
* [[Sergio Fantoni]]
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| cinematography = [[Henri Decaë]]<ref name="filmportal"/>
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| editing = [[Paul Cayatte]]<ref name="filmportal"/>
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| music = [[François de Roubaix]]<ref name="filmportal"/>
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* Copernic
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* Comacico
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* Societé Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)
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* Igor Film
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* Eichberg-Film GmbH<ref name="filmportal">{{cite web|url=https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/mit-teuflischen-grussen_ea43d4a6edfd5006e03053d50b37753d|website=[[Filmportal.de]]|title=Mit teuflischen Grüßen|access-date=25 March 2018}}</ref>
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* [[Columbia-Bavaria Film|Columbia-Bavaria]] (West Germany)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/30998/mit-teuflischen-grussen|title=Mit teuflischen Grüßen|website=Filmdienst|language=de|access-date=1 May 2022}}</ref>
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| editing = Paul Cayatte<ref name="filmportal" />
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| gross = 836,942 admissions (France)<ref name="film">{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-alain-delon-c22669761/24|title=Diaboliquement vôtre – Alain Delon Box Office 1967|website=Box Office Story|language=fr|access-date=1 May 2022}}</ref>
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'''''Diabolically Yours''''' ({{lang-fr|'''Diaboliquement vôtre'''}}) is a 1967 thriller film starring [[Alain Delon]] and [[Senta Berger]]. It was the last film by director [[Julien Duvivier]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Director Duvivier, 71, Dies in Paris|work=Los Angeles Times |date=Oct 31, 1967|page=c9}}</ref>
'''''Diabolically Yours''''' ({{langx|fr|'''Diaboliquement vôtre'''}}) is a 1967 [[psychological thriller]] film starring [[Alain Delon]] and [[Senta Berger]]. It was the last film by director [[Julien Duvivier]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Director Duvivier, 71, Dies in Paris|work=Los Angeles Times |date=31 October 1967|page=c9}}</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==
Waking from a coma in a private clinic with amnesia, a man is told that he survived a car crash and that he is Georges Campo, a name he does not recognise. A beautiful woman he does not know, who says she is his wife Christiane, takes him to recuperate in a mansion in walled grounds. With her is a doctor, Frédéric Launay, who says he is an old friend from their days in business together in Hong Kong. At the mansion they are greeted by the half-Chinese butler Kim, who is offhand with him but has a suspiciously close relationship with Christiane. He is told that he must rest and take copious medication, while Christiane adds that there is no hope of any marital relations until he is fully well.
Waking from a three-week coma in a private clinic with amnesia, a man is told that he survived a car crash and that he is Georges Campo, a name he does not recognise. A beautiful woman he does not know, who says she is his wife Christiane, takes him to recuperate in a mansion in walled grounds. With her is a doctor, Frédéric Launay, who says he is an old friend from their days in business together in Hong Kong. At the mansion they are greeted by the half-Chinese butler, Kim, who is offhand with him but has a suspiciously close relationship with Christiane. He is told that he must rest and take copious medication, while Christiane adds that there is no hope of any marital relations until he is fully well.


Voices start troubling him at night and he suffers nightmares, in one of which he is a coarse soldier called Pierre Lagrange fighting in Algeria. He discovers that he cannot get out of the grounds, that there is no telephone and that he is a prisoner. He suspects attempts on his life: an unsecured trap door opens under him, a large dog attacks him, a chandelier falls on him at dinner.
Voices start troubling him at night and he suffers nightmares, in one of which he is a coarse soldier called Pierre Lagrange fighting in Algeria. He discovers that he cannot get out of the grounds, that there is no telephone and that he is a prisoner. He suspects attempts on his life: an unsecured trap door opens under him, a large dog attacks him, and a chandelier falls on him at dinner.


He realises he cannot be Georges Campo, because only Christiane and Frédéric claim he is, and that Campo must therefore be dead. While Frédéric is away one night, he forces himself on the not wholly unwilling Christiane and at breakfast tells Frédéric. Enraged at her treachery, he starts beating her, upon which the jealous Kim knifes him. She responds by shooting Kim and then confesses the whole plot. She and Frédéric had killed her husband Georges secretly but then needed a public death so they could marry and take over the Hong Kong business. They got the ex-soldier Pierre Lagrange drunk and crashed the car, but he survived. Then they had further attempts at killing him, which failed. Christiane offers to be a wife and business partner to him if he will carry on as Georges Campo. The police, when called to investigate the two deaths, do not believe him however.
He realises he cannot be Georges Campo, because only Christiane and Frédéric claim he is, and that Campo must therefore be dead. While Frédéric is away one night, he forces himself on the not wholly unwilling Christiane and at breakfast tells Frédéric. Enraged at her treachery, he starts beating her, upon which the jealous Kim knifes him. She responds by shooting Kim and then confesses the whole plot. She and Frédéric had killed her husband Georges secretly but then needed a public death so they could marry and take over the Hong Kong business. They got the ex-soldier Pierre Lagrange drunk and crashed the car, but he survived. Then they had further attempts at killing him, which failed. Christiane offers to be a wife and business partner to him if he will carry on as Georges Campo. The police, when called to investigate the two deaths, do not believe him, however.


== Cast ==
==Cast==
* [[Alain Delon]] – Pierre Lagrange / Georges Campo
* [[Alain Delon]] as Pierre Lagrange / Georges Campo
* [[Senta Berger]] – Christiane
* [[Senta Berger]] as Christiane
* [[Peter Mosbacher]] – Kim
* [[Peter Mosbacher]] as Kim
* [[Sergio Fantoni]] – Frédéric Launay
* [[Claude Piéplu]] as interior decorator
* [[Claude Piéplu]] – Interior decorator
* [[Sergio Fantoni]] as Frédéric Launay


==Production==
==Production==
''Diabolically Yours'' was based on the novel ''Manie de la persécution'' by [[Louis Thomas (writer)|Louis Thomas]].{{sfn|McCann|2017|p=247}} The novel was adapted by Julien Duvivier, [[Roland Girard]], and [[Jean Bolvary]] with dialogue written by Paul Gégauff.<ref name="filmportal" />
''Diabolically Yours'' was based on the novel ''Manie de la persécution'' by [[Louis Thomas (writer)|Louis Thomas]].{{sfn|McCann|2017|p=247}} The novel was adapted by Julien Duvivier, [[Roland Girard]], and [[Jean Bolvary]] with dialogue written by Paul Gégauff.<ref name="filmportal"/>


==Release==
==Release==
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The film was a box office failure.<ref name="film"/>
The film was a box office failure.<ref name="film"/>


In a contemporary review, the ''[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' stated that "It is a pity that Duvivier's extraordinarily uneven career should have ended with this rather lame thriller."<ref name="mfb">{{cite magazine|title=Diaboliquement Votre (Diabolically Yours)|magazine=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]|year=1969|volume=36|issue=420|page=124}}</ref> "Mosk." of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' found the film to be "somewhat oldhat" and "fairly obvious attempt at a psycho thriller"<ref name="variety-book">{{cite book|title=Variety's Film Reviews 1968–1970|volume=12|publisher=R. R. Bowker|ISBN=0-8352-2792-8|year=1983|at=There are no page numbers in this book. This entry is found under the header "January 24, 1968"}}</ref>
In a contemporary review, the ''[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' stated that "It is a pity that Duvivier's extraordinarily uneven career should have ended with this rather lame thriller."<ref name="mfb">{{cite magazine|title=Diaboliquement Votre (Diabolically Yours)|magazine=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]|year=1969|volume=36|issue=420|page=124}}</ref> Gene Moskowitz, in his review for ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', found the film to be a "somewhat oldhat… fairly obvious attempt at a psycho thriller."<ref name="variety-book">{{cite book |title=Variety Film Reviews |volume=12: 1968–1970 |publisher=R. R. Bowker |page=18th book page (unnumbered pages) |isbn=0-8240-5211-0 |year=1983 |orig-date=January 24, 1968 (date of ''Variety'' issue with this review) |entry= Diaboliquement Votre |first=Gene (this specific review) |last=Moskowitz |entry-url=https://archive.org/details/varietyfilmrevie0000unse/page/n17/mode/2up?q=January+24%2C+1968 |access-date=2023-10-11 |entry-url-access=limited |via=[[Internet Archive#Text collection|Internet Archive Book Reader]]}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


===Sources===
===Sources===
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* {{cite book|title=Julien Duvivier: French Film Director Series|last=McCann|first=Ben|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2017|isbn=978-0719091148}}
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* {{cite book|title=Julien Duvivier: French Film Director Series|last=McCann|first=Ben|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2017|ISBN=0719091144|ref=harv}}
{{refend}}


==External links==
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0061568}}
* {{IMDb title|0061568}}
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* [http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=4461 Review of film] at Spinning Image
* {{AllMovie title|13578|Diabolically Yours}}
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*[http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=4461 Review of film] at Spinning Image
{{Julien Duvivier}}
{{Julien Duvivier}}
{{Paul Gégauff}}


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Latest revision as of 20:21, 21 December 2024

Diabolically Yours
French theatrical release poster
FrenchDiaboliquement vôtre
Directed byJulien Duvivier
Screenplay by
Based onManie de la persécution
by Louis Thomas
Starring
CinematographyHenri Decaë[2]
Edited byPaul Cayatte[2]
Music byFrançois de Roubaix[2]
Production
companies
  • Lira Films
  • Copernic
  • Comacico
  • Societé Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)
  • Igor Film
  • Eichberg-Film GmbH[2]
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 22 December 1967 (1967-12-22) (France)
  • 20 August 1968 (1968-08-20) (West Germany)
Running time
95 minutes[2]
Countries
  • France
  • Italy
  • West Germany[2]
LanguageFrench[3]
Box office836,942 admissions (France)[5]

Diabolically Yours (French: Diaboliquement vôtre) is a 1967 psychological thriller film starring Alain Delon and Senta Berger. It was the last film by director Julien Duvivier.[6]

Plot

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Waking from a three-week coma in a private clinic with amnesia, a man is told that he survived a car crash and that he is Georges Campo, a name he does not recognise. A beautiful woman he does not know, who says she is his wife Christiane, takes him to recuperate in a mansion in walled grounds. With her is a doctor, Frédéric Launay, who says he is an old friend from their days in business together in Hong Kong. At the mansion they are greeted by the half-Chinese butler, Kim, who is offhand with him but has a suspiciously close relationship with Christiane. He is told that he must rest and take copious medication, while Christiane adds that there is no hope of any marital relations until he is fully well.

Voices start troubling him at night and he suffers nightmares, in one of which he is a coarse soldier called Pierre Lagrange fighting in Algeria. He discovers that he cannot get out of the grounds, that there is no telephone and that he is a prisoner. He suspects attempts on his life: an unsecured trap door opens under him, a large dog attacks him, and a chandelier falls on him at dinner.

He realises he cannot be Georges Campo, because only Christiane and Frédéric claim he is, and that Campo must therefore be dead. While Frédéric is away one night, he forces himself on the not wholly unwilling Christiane and at breakfast tells Frédéric. Enraged at her treachery, he starts beating her, upon which the jealous Kim knifes him. She responds by shooting Kim and then confesses the whole plot. She and Frédéric had killed her husband Georges secretly but then needed a public death so they could marry and take over the Hong Kong business. They got the ex-soldier Pierre Lagrange drunk and crashed the car, but he survived. Then they had further attempts at killing him, which failed. Christiane offers to be a wife and business partner to him if he will carry on as Georges Campo. The police, when called to investigate the two deaths, do not believe him, however.

Cast

[edit]

Production

[edit]

Diabolically Yours was based on the novel Manie de la persécution by Louis Thomas.[1] The novel was adapted by Julien Duvivier, Roland Girard, and Jean Bolvary with dialogue written by Paul Gégauff.[2]

Release

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Diabolically Yours was released in France on 22 December 1967 and in West Germany on 20 August 1968.[2]

Reception

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The film was a box office failure.[5]

In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that "It is a pity that Duvivier's extraordinarily uneven career should have ended with this rather lame thriller."[7] Gene Moskowitz, in his review for Variety, found the film to be a "somewhat oldhat… fairly obvious attempt at a psycho thriller."[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b McCann 2017, p. 247.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Mit teuflischen Grüßen". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Diabolically Yours de Julien Duvivier (1967)". UniFrance. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Mit teuflischen Grüßen". Filmdienst (in German). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Diaboliquement vôtre – Alain Delon Box Office 1967". Box Office Story (in French). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Director Duvivier, 71, Dies in Paris". Los Angeles Times. 31 October 1967. p. c9.
  7. ^ "Diaboliquement Votre (Diabolically Yours)". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 36, no. 420. 1969. p. 124.
  8. ^ Moskowitz, Gene (this specific review) (1983) [January 24, 1968 (date of Variety issue with this review)]. "Diaboliquement Votre". Variety Film Reviews. Vol. 12: 1968–1970. R. R. Bowker. p. 18th book page (unnumbered pages). ISBN 0-8240-5211-0. Retrieved 11 October 2023 – via Internet Archive Book Reader.

Sources

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  • McCann, Ben (2017). Julien Duvivier: French Film Director Series. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0719091148.
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