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Elevator To The Gallows
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Release Date:
Jan 29, 1958
Soundtrack:
Ascenseur Pour L’echafaud
With his French quintet of the day—Barney Wilen, tenor saxophone; Rene Urtreger, piano; Pierre Michelot, bass; Kenny Clarke, drums—Miles composed and in the late hours of December 4 and into the next day in a Paris radio station, recorded a mostly impromptu, modal series of tracks for Louis Malle's first feature film Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) released in 1958.
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Production Credits
Directed by Louis Malle

Produced by Jean Thuillier

Music by Miles Davis

Cinematography by Henri Decaë

Film Editing by Léonide Azar
Cast

Jeanne Moreau - Florence Carala

Maurice Ronet - Julien Tavernier

Georges Poujouly - Louis

Yori Bertin - Véronique

Jean Wall - Simon Carala

Elga Andersen - Frieda Bencker
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