Inside a Girls’ Dormitory (1953)

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Country: France
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 1956-02-04
Director: Henri Decoin
Writers: François Chalais , Henri Decoin , Jacques Natanson , Stanislas-André Steeman
Language: French
Stars: Jean Marais , Françoise Arnoul , Denise Grey , Jeanne Moreau , Noël Roquevert , Line Noro , Katherine Kath , Louis de Funès , Humberto Almazán , Pierre Morin
Runtime: 95 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Η κολασμένη του παρθεναγωγείου (Greece) , Sypialnia wielkich (Poland) , Dormitorio para mayores (Mexico) , French Girls' Dormitory (United Kingdom) , Girls' Dormitory (United Kingdom) , Inside a Girls' Dormitory (United States of America) , Dortoir des grandes , Спальня старшеклассниц (Russian Federation) , Dortoir des grandes (Belgium) , Girls' Dormitory , Im Schlafsaal der großen Mädchen (Austria) , Girls' Dormitory , Lányok hálóterme (Hungary) , Il dormitorio delle adolescenti (Italy) , Dormitório de Moças (Brazil) , 上級生の寢室 (Japan) , Im Schlafsaal der großen Mädchen , Dortoir des grandes (France, French Republic) , Girls' Dormitory (United States of America) , I kolasmeni tou parthenagogeiou (Greece) , Ložnice dospívajících dívek (Czech Republic) , Murha tyttökoulussa (Finland) , Dormitorio de mayores (Uruguay, Eastern Republic of) , Meisjes slaapzaal (Belgium) , Dormitório de Raparigas (Portugal, Portuguese Republic)
Plot: Detective Marco is assigned to investigate a murder that has occurred at an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls. The victim is a popular, wealthy girl found strangled in her bed. The school director tells Marco she expects him to find the killer outside of the school, and she bristles at his insistent interrogations of the school staff and the students. Marco learns that two sadistic games were played the night of the murder and that the victim had been tied up. There are a number of suspects, including a teacher with an unnatural affection for one of the girls; a suspicious Spanish gentleman at the town-inn, and some of the pupils themselves. The dead girl's best friend gives the detective the victim's letters and some films. At a showing of the films, there is a sequence where an elderly, mild-mannered teacher is shown kissing with the disreputable town photographer.
IMDB:tt0045700