Writing

Claude Desailly

Born 1922-04-14 · Cambrai, France

Claude Desailly was a French screenwriter. He collaborated on a number of films with the director Robert Hossein.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Falling Point poster
5.9

Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, in charge of watching her, let accidentally the girl see his face and it becomes no longer possible to return her alive...

Falling Point

1970

Cemetery without Crosses poster
6.3

A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.

Cemetery without Crosses

1969

The Vampire of Dusseldorf poster
5.6

A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.

The Vampire of Dusseldorf

1965

I Killed Rasputin poster
4.4

Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.

I Killed Rasputin

1967

The Taste of Violence poster
6.6

Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.

The Taste of Violence

1961

Marked Eyes poster
6.3

A story about a widow who begins to receive blackmail letters demanding money from her. This is when everyone in the small town she lives in dismissing her husband.

Marked Eyes

1964

Mandrin poster
5.0

It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and less. When the governor of Dauphiné arrived in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, he had to deal with opponents of the regime who had gathered around cooper Louis Mandrin. Mandrin becomes the vigilante who respects his king, but does not tolerate the oppression of the poor through taxation.

Mandrin

1962

Tonight the Skirts Fly poster
5.5

At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer. Marlène hesitates between two suitors. Blanche, who loves Jean, Roussel's son, wants him to talk to his father about their relationship. Catherine learns that her lover has a wife and two kids. Jeannette throws herself into the arms of an Oriental prince. In despair the fifth one attempts to commit suicide...

Tonight the Skirts Fly

1956

Visa to Hell poster
8.0

The action takes place on the coast of the eastern Pyrenees near the Spanish border. Mario Balducci escaped from prison, after settling his account with his former accomplice who had given him away, he joins his ex-mistress, Mado, a bellowing singer who he asks to help him get to Spain.

Visa to Hell

1959

Le Crâneur poster
5.4

A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.

Le Crâneur

1955

Death of a Killer poster
6.2

When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria. Feeling doubly betrayed because of his unhealthy adoration for Maria, Massa is determined to get back at Luciano and ends up in a deadly game of roulette.

Death of a Killer

1964