Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.

Responsive image


Cul-de-sac (1966 film)

Cul-de-sac
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRoman Polanski
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyGilbert Taylor
Edited byAlastair McIntyre
Music byKrzysztof Komeda
Production
companies
  • Compton Films
  • Tekli British Productions
Distributed byCompton-Cameo Films
Release date
  • 17 June 1966 (1966-06-17) (London)
Running time
112 minutes[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£120,000[3] or £170,938[4]

Cul-de-sac is a 1966 British black comedy psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, written by Polanski and Gérard Brach, and starring Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran, with Iain Quarrier, Geoffrey Sumner, Renée Houston, William Franklyn, Marie Kean and Trevor Delaney in supporting roles. It also features Jacqueline Bisset in a small role, in her second film appearance. Polanski's second English-language feature, it follows two injured gangsters who take refuge in the remote island castle of a young British couple in the North of England, spurring a series of mind games and violent altercations.

  1. ^ Sweet, Matthew (29 January 2006). "The lost worlds of British cinema: The horror". The Independent. [dead link]
  2. ^ "Cul-de-sac (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. 15 November 2012. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  3. ^ Hallenbeck 2009, p. 82.
  4. ^ Chapman, James (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945–1985. Edinburgh University Press. p. 360.

Previous Page Next Page