They wrote the spectacularly creepy “D’entre les morts” (“From Among the Dead”). You know it as the film “Vertigo,” with Alfred Hitchcock switching the setting from France to San Francisco. But Pierre ...

Boileau-Narcejac is the nom de plume under which French crime fiction writers Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906, Paris – 16 January 1989, Beaulieu-sur-Mer) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (3 July ...

Here's an example of two good writers making one brilliant one. Pierre Boileau was born in Paris in 1906, while Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac, arrived two years later in Rochefort-Sur-Mer. They ...

Although this has a few hallucinating bits of terror, the film is primarily a creaky-door type of melodrama [from the novel Celle qui n'etait plus by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac]. Its macabre ...

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