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Le corbeau The raven

A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. The spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turns the occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt.

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  • "Raven"
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  • "Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le corbeau"
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  • "A French village doctor becomes target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion. (1943)."
  • "A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. The spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turns the occupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt."@en
  • "The inhabitants of a small French town are terrorized by a series of anonymous letters and suspect each other."
  • "The inhabitants of a small French town are terrorized by a series of anonymous letters and suspect one another of being the author."
  • "A mysterious writer of poison pen letters, known only as Le Corbeau, plagues a French provincial town, unwittingly exposing the collective suspicion and rancor seething beneath the community's calm surface. Brilliantly captures the spirit of paranoid pettiness and self-loathing turning an ccupied French town into a twentieth-century Salem style witch-hunt."
  • "Poison pen letters disturb a small provincial town in France."@en
  • "A wave of hysteria sweeps the small provincial town of St Robin when a series of poisen-pen letters signed "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) appear denouncing several prominent members of society. Starting with the village doctor, the slow sinister trickle of letters soon becomes a flood and no one is safe from the malicious accusations, which include abortion and drug addiction. Beneath the townʼs respectful and calm surface lurks a darker side in which everyone is a suspect. With the towns people afraid to accuse each other for fear of being accused, suspicion and hatred reach epidemic levels."@en
  • "A wave of hysteria sweeps the small provincial town of St Robin when a series of poison-pen letters signed "Le Corbeau" (the Raven) appear, denouncing several prominent members of society. Starting with the village doctor, the slow trickle of sinister letters soon becomes a flood and no one is safe from their mysterious accusations--Container."
  • "A doctor in a rural French village becomes the target of poison pen letters accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion. Tension grows thick as the townspeople try to figure out who the culprit is."
  • "This murder-mystery film tells of Dr. Germain, newly arrived in the little village of Saint-Robin, who becomes the victim of a campaign of poison pen letters, all signed "Le corbeau" (The raven). The letters spread to other villagers and mutual suspicion becomes rampant. The repercussions become unpleasant and end in death."
  • "Story of a community somewhere in France which is stirred to explosive suspicions by a flood of letters from an unknown "poison pen.""
  • "Une petite ville de province est troublée par un afflux de lettres anonymes."
  • "Fiction. Drame. Un médecin qui pratique dans une petite ville de province reçoit des lettres anonymes. Envoyées simultanément aux autorités, elles l'accusent de pratiquer des avortements et d'autres gestes illégaux. Bientôt menacés, les habitants de la ville baignent dans le doute. Le docteur décide de mener sa propre enquête. Avec Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Pierre Larquey."

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  • "Feature films"
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  • "Le corbeau The raven"
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  • "Le Corbeau (motion picture)"
  • "Le Corbeau The Raven"
  • "Le Corbeau The Raven"@en
  • "Le corbeau (Motion picture)"@en
  • "Corbeau (Motion picture : 1943)"
  • "Le corbeau the raven"
  • "Le Corbeau The raven"

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