_**Mid-60’s art house flick is dramatically tedious, but has interesting themes**_
A diminutive artist (Donald Pleasence) lives with his much-younger French wife (Françoise Dorléac) in a castle on a tidal island in northern England. When a gruff gangster (Lionel Stander) shows up on their doorstep havoc ensues. Iain Quarrier, William Franklyn and a young Jacqueline Bisset show up for peripheral parts.
"Cul-de-Sac" (1966) is one of Roman Polanski's early experiments, a freestyle B&W psychological crime dramedy that takes elements of “The Damned” (1963), “Touch of Evil” (1958) ...
Cul-de-sac
1966
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1h 52m
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Thriller
Comedy
Crime
Drama
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★ 6.7/10
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On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
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Top Billed Cast
Lionel Stander
Richard
Donald Pleasence
George
Françoise Dorléac
Teresa
Jack MacGowran
Albie
Iain Quarrier
Christopher
Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline
Renée Houston
Christopher's Mother
William Franklyn
Cecil
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