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Elevator to the Gallows is a Louis Malle film of 1958. In French it is known as Ascenseur pour l'échafaud. In the UK it is normally translated as Lift to the Scaffold.

A French language classic, it stars Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet. The score by Miles Davis is an important element.

The central characters, a pair of lovers, plan the perfect crime - the murder of the woman's husband. The murderer abseils down the office block to kill the husband in his office without being seen, but on going to his car, realises that he has left the rope dangling outside the building. Leaving his expensive car unlocked, he returns to remove the evidence, but after doing so becomes trapped in the lift as the building closes down for the weekend. In the meantime, the car is stolen by a young couple.

Much of the suspense comes from the man's attempt to escape from the lift. Although he succeeds, the murder plot is eventually discovered through photographs taken by the young couple with the camera they find in his car.

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