The Butcher

Name: The Butcher
Director: Claude Chabrol
Released: 1970
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone

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

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 763 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:13 THE BUTCHER

00:05:48 Give me a kiss.

00:11:14 Nice people in this town.

00:14:10 You seem to like logic.

00:19:56 Thank you.

00:22:41 "a marvellous hue...

00:25:30 What is it?

00:28:04 I'm too early.

00:30:27 Here's my kitchenette.

00:32:49 Your brother passed it.

00:34:47 - It'd give you strength. - Next time then.

00:37:41 I think I know what you'll ask.

00:40:01 but I ask you not to.

00:44:56 S'posing Cro-Magnon came back now...

00:49:12 They're right to pass the buck.

00:51:28 Now don't invent anything.

00:55:27 Miss Helen, may I come up?

00:58:02 I thought of all those corpses you talked about.

01:04:12 Not an indication.

01:06:17 No, Miss Helen.

01:09:04 Shall I clear up?

01:12:33 Just a minute...

01:17:18 Miss Helen, help me!

01:22:04 I've a lot of blood.

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 line01:22:04

Production Record

DirectorClaude Chabrol

LanguageFrench

IMDb votes9,691