The Butcher

1970 · 93 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 9,691 VOTES · DIR. Claude Chabrol

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Overview

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

ThrillerCrimeDrama1970s

Dialogue Timeline — 763 lines

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00:00:13 THE BUTCHER
00:05:57 Now kiss each other.
00:11:20 I'd rather not have.
00:14:22 Iogic and liberty.
00:20:06 Come along, children. Five minutes late.
00:23:16 - I disturb you? - Not a bit.
00:25:53 Come along about 7.
00:28:22 I'm all right.
00:30:54 Never garlic in lamb!
00:33:44 I've seen my own pals rotting and eaten by worms.
00:35:48 Children, come and look at Paul's mushrooms!
00:38:33 That's why I came here as a school teacher.
00:41:56 Think now. Close your mouth!
00:46:27 It's red.
00:49:59 the blood dropped.
00:52:38 Yes, but I cannot help you.
00:57:06 Marvellous.
00:59:24 Not going to begin again, are you?
01:05:39 I hope so.
01:07:57 "and then at 70 m.p. H...
01:10:21 That should be it.
01:16:23 stuck my knife into her.
01:21:13 I'd have liked to take you in my arms.
01:28:38 Subtitles processed by C.M.C.

Cast & Characters

Stéphane Audran Hélène Jean Yanne Popaul Jean Yanne Paul Thomas Antonio Passalia Angelo Pascal Ferone Père Cahrpy Pascal Ferone Uncle Cahrpy Mario Beccara Léon Hamel William Guérault Charles Roger Rudel Commissaire Grumbach Roger Rudel Inspector Grumbach

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed763
Dialogue density8.2 lines / min
First line00:00:13
Final line01:28:38

Production Record

DirectorClaude Chabrol
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes9,691