Creezy (film)

1974 film

1974 (1974)

LanguageFrenchBox office$6 million^[1]

Creezy (French: La Race des seigneurs) is a 1974 French film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and starring Alain Delon.^[2] It is based on the novel Creezy by Félicien Marceau.^[3]

It recorded admissions of 801,704 at the French box office.^[4]

Plot

Julien Dandieu is a senior figure in the Unified Republican Party (PRU),^{[n 1]} which has a chance of political power in a conservative coalition after the forthcoming election. His wife and son need his support but his political ambitions come first. Then he and a beautiful model, the "Creezy" (= "crazy") of the title, fall in love, and she wants to come first in his attentions. After badgering his best friend into abandoning his ideals to support him, he is elected and rewarded with his longed-for ministry, but at the moment of triumph he must choose between keeping an appointment with her and attending a formal ceremony. He chooses the latter, and when he finds her she has killed herself.

Notes

^ This Gaullist party is fictional.

Cast

Alain Delon as Julien Dandieu
Sydne Rome as Creezy
Jeanne Moreau as Renee Vibert
Claude Rich as Dominique
Jean-Marc Bory as Savarin
Jean-Pierre Castaldi as Collard
Louis Seigner as Garcin
Madeleine Ozeray as Madame Dandieu

References

^ "La Race des seigneurs (1974) - JPBox-Office".
^ A short eye-witness account of shooting scenes for the film at Boulogne-Billancourt and on location near Napoleon's tomb in Paris is given by one of the film's extras in "Cinéma vérité: on location in Paris" in Adamson and Jackson, Footloose in France, Cambridge: John Adamson, 2023, ISBN 978-1-898565-18-5, pp. 63–6.
^ "La race des seigneurs". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2015-03-31.
^ Box office information for film at Box Office Story