< The Case of Poisons (1955)

MOVIE | "L'affaire des poisons" | 1h 43m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 6.1 (175)

Crime, Drama, History | Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles. Having had enough of the situation, the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin, a woman known as a fortune teller, a doctor, a midwife and who is also said to arrange black masses and sell poisons. Some time later Marie-Angélique, now Duchess of Fontanges, dies mysteriously aged only twenty...

• Director: Henri Decoin
• Writer: Henri Decoin
• Writer: Georges Neveux
• Writer: Victorien Sardou
• Writer: Albert Valentin
• Danielle Darrieux (38) - Françoise Athénaïs de Montespan
• Viviane Romance (43) - Catherine Deshayes dite La Voisin
• Paul Meurisse (43) - L'abbé Etienne Guibourg
• Anne Vernon (31) - Hermine Des Oeillets
• Pierre Mondy (30) - Le capitaine François Desgrez
• François Patrice (31) - Monsieur de Lignières
• Christine Carère (25) - Marie-Angélique de Fontanges
• Roldano Lupi (46) - L'alchimiste Lesage
• Albert Rémy (40) - Le bourreau Guillaume
• Luisa Rossi (30) - Madame Gobet
• Renaud Mary (37) - Henri de Montespan
• Maurice Teynac (40) - Nicolas de la Reynie
• Pierre Allan - ?
• Roland Armontel (51) - L'aveugle
• Florence Arnaud (25) - ?
• Dimitri Dineff - ?
• Michel Etcheverry (36) - Le prédicateur
• Nicole Gamma (25) - ?
• Albert Michel (46) - Gobet
• Jacques Moulières (11) - L'enfant de l'aveugle