Poison
1951 · 85 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 1,727 VOTES · DIR. Sacha Guitry
Overview
Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
Dialogue Timeline — 1,404 lines
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00:00:32 And it's Michel Simon
00:03:40 And it's also for that reason that you have played it so well.
00:06:51 and my mind has been made up about them for a long time
00:09:30 Even though she sees me wash them every week
00:13:01 How can I be of service, Mrs. Braconnier?
00:18:56 We'll love each other forever
00:23:10 ...right on the Evreux road, business would go up right away, wouldn't it?
00:26:05 I don't come home anymore until the last possible minute.
00:29:47 I like this a lot better. -- Me too!
00:34:09 you'll understand that I hesitate to proclaim, all of a sudden, the opposite
00:37:11 But of course not.
00:39:34 We're not asking for as much as that.
00:42:06 That, really...
00:45:03 I jumped at the coincidence
00:48:05 who was leaving your house at the same moment.
00:52:52 Had a good time?
00:58:33 I was there, she was here.
01:01:38 Germaine's brother used to be the lover of the wife of the head guard.
01:04:39 I've got your murder attempt, which you were so set on having.
01:07:17 That's exactly what I don't want.
01:10:57 Braconnier, have you understood the charge?
01:13:36 To Pont-l'Evêque. -- And why did they go there?
01:16:07 Oh... well...
01:19:21 In the country, it's different.
Cast & Characters
Michel Simon
Paul Louis Victor Braconnier
Jean Debucourt
Maître Aubanel
Jacques Varennes
Le procureur
Jeanne Fusier-Gir
La fleuriste
Germaine Reuver
Blandine Braconnier
Pauline Carton
La mercière
Albert Duvaleix
L'abbé Méthivier
Henry Laverne
Le président
Jacques de Féraudy
Jean Brun
Jacques Derives
Jules
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,404
Dialogue density16.5 lines / min
First line00:00:32
Final line01:19:21
Production Record
DirectorSacha Guitry
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes1,727